memesAndJokesAboutEverythingProgrammingAndCS. For anything funny related to programming and software development. Founded 2012 · 4.8M members · links only
4.8M members. The best post we have captured here reached
139.7K upvotes, which works out to
29 per 1,000 members.
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.
97%
Image 97%Video 1%Link 1%
The topics it labels
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/ProgrammerHumor?
r/ProgrammerHumor ("memesAndJokesAboutEverythingProgrammingAndCS") describes itself this way: For anything funny related to programming and software development. It was founded in 2012 and has 4.8M members.
How many members does r/ProgrammerHumor have?
r/ProgrammerHumor has about 4.8M members. ViralHunt has tracked 805 of its posts; the biggest reached 139.7K upvotes, which is 29 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/ProgrammerHumor?
"Why aren’t you playing by the rules of the game!" reached 139.7K upvotes and 2.6K comments in 2022, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/ProgrammerHumor.
What subreddits are similar to r/ProgrammerHumor?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/JustGuysBeingDudes, r/freefolk, r/awesome.
What kind of posts do best on r/ProgrammerHumor?
Of the posts we hold, 97% are image posts and 1% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/ProgrammerHumor?
Across 805 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 08:00 UTC (43.1K avg upvotes), Monday at 13:00 UTC (41.1K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 09:00 UTC (36.9K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/ProgrammerHumor?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/ProgrammerHumor has 82.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 245 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/ProgrammerHumor, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is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.
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