r/programminghorror
ActiveProgramming Horror: Sharing the WTFs
Share strange or straight-up awful code.
Members
363,011
as of February 2025
Last post
today
September 28, 2026
Posts (30 days)
71
Created
2012
March 14, 2012
Total posts
20.8K
archived
Total comments
409.8K
archived
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r/programminghorror was created on March 14, 2012.
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