Can I promote my product here?
The policy is unknown, so lead with useful programming content and keep any link to your product clearly secondary.
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r/programmation rules, stats, and what to post
A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/programmation: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog.
Subreddit guides combine public Reddit source URLs, captured rules, visible verification dates, and Rankhog's account-safety workflow.
Current public stats
- Members
- 103,057
- Verified
- September 27, 2026
- Category
- Technical product and developer communities
Rules can change, so Rankhog keeps verification dates and the original public Reddit sources visible.
Rule summary
No subreddit-specific rules were displayed on the public rules page when Rankhog verified it on 2026-09-27.
Works well
- A technical writeup in French about a problem you solved while building your product.
- A question in French asking developers how they handle a specific programming challenge.
- A short code pattern or snippet explained in French, with the tradeoffs laid out.
- A lesson learned post about a technical decision, written so it stands alone without any links.
Avoid
- Posting in English when the community works in French.
- Sharing a post with no connection to programming, since that is the one thing the moderator note excludes.
- Leading with a sales pitch, because the promotion policy is unknown and a pure ad is a gamble.
- Being rude or dismissive, since the brief asks for polite posts.
What r/programmation Is For
This community is for people who program and prefer to do it in French. The public description says, “si votre language de prédilection pour programmer est le Français”, which means, if your favorite language for programming is French. So the room is French speaking developers talking about programming topics. There are no published rules on the rules page, and no top post titles were observed, so the description is the main signal about who belongs here. Treat it as a general programming community where French is the working language, not a place for English first content.
What To Post
With no published rules, the safest read comes from the moderator one liner, which asks for posts relevant to programming in French. Write your post in French, keep it on a programming topic, and make it useful on its own. As a founder, share something you learned building your product, a technical writeup, a code pattern, or a genuine question about a stack decision, rather than an ad. If you link to your own site, make sure the post still works if nobody clicks, because the promotion policy here is unknown. Stay polite, since the brief asks for that too.
What To Avoid
Nothing is spelled out as bannable, because the rules page is empty. The clear risk is a post that is not about programming, or a post written in English when the community works in French. The brief flags promotion as unknown, so a pure sales pitch is a guess about what survives, and I would not gamble on it. The one thing the moderators did say is to keep posts polite and relevant, so anything hostile or off topic is asking for trouble.
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Common questions about r/programmation
Do I have to write in French?
Yes, both the description and the moderator note point to French as the working language of this community.
Are links allowed?
Nothing is published about links, so only share one when the post would still be valuable without it.
What happens if I break a rule?
There are no published rules, so removal depends on moderator judgment, which makes relevance and politeness your safest bet.
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