
Software Development Communities
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This is a list of communities dedicated to engineers, software developers, coders, and hackers. Some are online communities dedicated to a particular technology or programming language, and some are general purpose communities or those that help developers early in their career. The communities on this list are an excellent source of inspiration, knowledge-sharing, and networking.
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Code Project
1999
Established
14.7M
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Stack Overflow
2008
Established
10.0M
Members


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Hacker News
5.0M
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r/programming
on reddit
2006
Established
3.0M
Members

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r/learnprogramming
on reddit
2009
Established
1.8M
Members

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r/hacking
on reddit
2008
Established
1.5M
Members

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r/javascript
on reddit
2013
Established
1.3M
Members

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r/compsci
on reddit
2008
Established
1.2M
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r/webdev
on reddit
2009
Established
624K
Members


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r/linux
on reddit
2008
Established
600K
Members


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r/ProgrammingLanguages
on reddit
2008
Established
531K
Members

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Bytes
2008
Established
464K
Members

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r/homelab
on reddit
2012
Established
365K
Members


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r/coding
on reddit
2009
Established
259K
Members

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Women who Code
230K
Members

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r/reactjs
on reddit
2013
Established
228K
Members

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r/dailyprogrammer
on reddit
2012
Established
214K
Members

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r/node
on reddit
2009
Established
177K
Members

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r/aws
on reddit
2008
Established
150K
Members

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r/rust
on reddit
2010
Established
120K
Members

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r/selfhosted
on reddit
2014
Established
102K
Members

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devRant
2016
Established
50K
Members

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r/emacs
on reddit
2008
Established
47K
Members

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The Coding Den
on discord
46K
Members

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freeCodeCamp
40K
Members

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r/scala
on reddit
2008
Established
37K
Members

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r/salesforce
on reddit
31K
Members

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r/lisp
on reddit
2008
Established
30K
Members

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iOS Developers
on slack
30K
Members

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DevOps Chat
on slack
19K
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Changelog
on slack
19K
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Programmer's Hangout
on discord
18K
Members

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C# Discord
on discord
18K
Members

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Django Girls
on facebook
17K
Members


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Lobsters
2012
Established
14K
Members

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Scotch.io Slack
on slack
12K
Members

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DevCord
on discord
5K
Members

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Salesforce Exchange Discord
on discord
5K
Members

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Android United
on slack
3K
Members

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DevOps, SRE, & Infrastructure (DSI)
on discord
2K
Members

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Chronic Coders
on discord
2021
Established
620
Members


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United Designers
on slack
400
Members

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Blogging for Devs
2020
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250
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Qvault
on discord
150
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Oat++ Framework
100
Members

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#go
on slack

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#php
on slack

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#nodejs
on slack

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#python
on slack

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#ruby
on slack

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UX Guide
on slack
2016
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Web Development
on discord

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Women in Technology
on slack

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Treehouse

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Girls Who Code
on discord
2020
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Freenode
1998
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DALnet
1994
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Bootstrapped FM


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Daily Dev Links
on slack
2020
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XDA

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