
Software Development Communities on Independent Platforms
About the Software Development topic
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.
About online communities on Independent Platforms
These are online communities that are hosted on their own platform, and not a part of a social network like Reddit/Facebook/LinkedIn, or communication platform like Slack and Discord. Although they may utilize community software like circle.so to implement the features of their community, they have their own brand and identity.
15 Independent Communities for Software Developers

Code Project
1999
Established
14.7M
Members


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Stack Overflow
2008
Established
10.0M
Members


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Hacker News
5.0M
Members


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Bytes
2008
Established
464K
Members

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Women who Code
230K
Members

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devRant
2016
Established
50K
Members

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freeCodeCamp
40K
Members

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Lobsters
2012
Established
14K
Members

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Blogging for Devs
2020
Established
250
Members




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Oat++ Framework
100
Members

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Treehouse

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Freenode
1998
Established



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DALnet
1994
Established

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Bootstrapped FM


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XDA

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