r/Backend
ActiveSoftware Engineering
For back-end programming discussion.
Members
17,819
as of February 2025
Last post
Unknown
Posts (30 days)
100+
Created
2011
August 17, 2011
Total posts
9.5K
archived
Total comments
45.9K
archived
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r/Backend was created on August 17, 2011.
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