For the past couple of weeks, we have been talking to many active r/programming contributors to understand how r/programming impacts their life as developers.

We already observed several interesting things, such as:

Our participants have used what that they saw on r/programming to build new (business) projects, get up-to-date with new technologies, and see what's going on with technologies they do not use at work.

R/programming seems to be a trustworthy source — technical posts do not face the ‘fake news’ problem

R/programming enables users to be in touch with many experts from different areas

One of the main reasons to share on r/programming is to collect and discuss different opinions on that topic

Karma is a cool number, shows how interesting your story was, but nothing more than that. Points on Stack Overflow are ‘more important to have’

Users rarely downvote. The common reason to do so is when a post/comment is off-topic or aggressive

Frequent posters believe that the number of negative comments is too high

Comments found on HackerNews seem deeper than the ones found in r/programming.

Do these findings make sense to you? We are still working on compiling all the answers and providing a complete report.

Now, we would love for the community to fill out this survey so that we can generalize these results. The survey only contains 7 multiple choice questions and takes less than 5 minutes to complete. If you leave your e-mail, we’ll raffle a 50 USD gift card from Amazon!

The survey: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/3744752/bba265ac9aec

We’ll be back with more interesting data!