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r/SoftwareEngineering

172.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 2.7K upvotes, which works out to 15 per 1,000 members.

15peak upvotes per 1,000 members
172.7Kmembers
2.7Kbest post
1Kmost comments
197posts 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.

46% 25% 17% 8%
Link 46% Text 25% Question 17% Image 8% Video 3% Gallery 2% Poll 1%

What the ceiling looks like

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

A tsunami is coming

↑ 2.7K 💬 934 text 2024

Does anyone else find Lex Fridman unbearable?

↑ 1.5K 💬 1K question 2020

can someone explain why we ditched monoliths for microservices? like... what was the reason fr?

↑ 510 💬 248 question 2025

r/SoftwareEngineering will be shutting down indefinitely on June 12th in protest of Reddit's API changes

↑ 487 💬 61 image 2023

Did you guys know that Uncle Bob is planning on writing a 2nd Edition of "Clean Code"?

↑ 441 💬 139 question 2024

Death by a thousand microservices

↑ 303 💬 33 link 2023

Breaking News: TCP applications moved to UDP due to Covid 19 effect !

↑ 271 💬 3 image 2020

Can someone explain to me why TDD isn't a joke?

↑ 267 💬 241 question 2024

We finished our first algorithm for generating procedural buildings through code. (See comments for a video demo)

↑ 254 💬 3 video 2019

Everything green and ready for deployment

↑ 237 💬 1 image 2019

Communities its size

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/SoftwareEngineering, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.