Community platforms — Community data 2026 | Stack Overflow Developer Survey

Developer Survey 2026

Question

Which community platforms have you used for technology-related content or purposes considerably or consistently in the past year? Which do you want to use over the next year? Please check all that apply.

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Data

	Respondents	Percent
GitHub (public projects, not private repos)	7,460	69.5%
Stack Overflow	7,372	68.6%
YouTube	6,272	58.4%
Reddit	5,784	53.8%
Stack Exchange	4,062	37.8%
LinkedIn	4,058	37.8%
Discord	3,591	33.4%
Medium	2,826	26.3%
Hacker News	2,576	24.0%
X	1,758	16.4%
Bluesky	1,356	12.6%
Slack (public channels, not work)	1,250	11.6%
Dev.to	1,103	10.3%
Company-sponsored forums	927	8.6%
Substack	858	8.0%
Other, please specify	719	6.7%
Twitch	569	5.3%
Kaggle	499	4.6%
Hashnode	131	1.2%

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Stack Exchange Inc. (2026). “Community platforms”. Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2026. Licensed under ODbL 1.0. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2026/community/data/comm-plat

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|  | Respondents | Percent |
| --- | ---: | ---: |
| GitHub (public projects, not private repos) | 7,460 | 69.5% |
| Stack Overflow | 7,372 | 68.6% |
| YouTube | 6,272 | 58.4% |
| Reddit | 5,784 | 53.8% |
| Stack Exchange | 4,062 | 37.8% |
| LinkedIn | 4,058 | 37.8% |
| Discord | 3,591 | 33.4% |
| Medium | 2,826 | 26.3% |
| Hacker News | 2,576 | 24.0% |
| X | 1,758 | 16.4% |
| Bluesky | 1,356 | 12.6% |
| Slack (public channels, not work) | 1,250 | 11.6% |
| Dev.to | 1,103 | 10.3% |
| Company-sponsored forums | 927 | 8.6% |
| Substack | 858 | 8.0% |
| Other, please specify | 719 | 6.7% |
| Twitch | 569 | 5.3% |
| Kaggle | 499 | 4.6% |
| Hashnode | 131 | 1.2% |

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