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r/cobol

8.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 2.6K upvotes, which works out to 294 per 1,000 members.

294peak upvotes per 1,000 members
8.7Kmembers
2.6Kbest post
662most comments
148posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

47% 25% 17%
Text 47% Link 25% Question 17% Image 5% Video 3% Gallery 3% Poll 1%

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Seen in the Hands Off protests

↑ 2.6K πŸ’¬ 94 image 2025

β€˜A disruptive effect’: How slashing staff at the Social Security Administration is sparking fears the system could collapse

↑ 1.2K πŸ’¬ 61 link 2025

"Computer prgmrs quickly claimed that the 150 figure was not evidence of fraud, but rather the result of a weird quirk of the SSA’s benefits system, …

↑ 1.1K πŸ’¬ 128 link 2025

Welp folks, we had a good run…

↑ 990 πŸ’¬ 662 text 2025

If COBOL is so problematic, why does the US government still use it?

↑ 690 πŸ’¬ 530 link 2025

New Social Security chief contradicts claims that millions of dead people are getting payouts

↑ 287 πŸ’¬ 23 link 2025

US banks rely on a 65-year-old programming language; companies are paying a premium for developers who know it

↑ 172 πŸ’¬ 86 link 2026

COBOL Devs Never Die β€” They Just Get Re-Contracted

↑ 170 πŸ’¬ 10 image 2025

I was dared to write a proof-of-concept toy webserver in COBOL. My first ever COBOL program

↑ 126 πŸ’¬ 43 text 2025

Banks will "maybe" be done with COBOL... in ten years

↑ 120 πŸ’¬ 152 text 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/cobol, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.