• All posts MUST show terrible code. There are no exceptions.

• No Editor Themes - If it's just your editor that looks bad, it doesn't belong here.

• No Advertisement Code. This is generally written by people in marketing who only know what "code" looks like from other ads. It's not real code, so it doesn't belong.

• No Student Code. Yes, they're learning, but bad code is part of the process.

• No Generated Code. If it's minified JS, generated XML, or what have you, we don't want it here. Yes, the YouTube homepage has an extra right-angle bracket. We know.

• No Asking for Help. Go to r/learnprogramming. What are you doing here?

• No Spamming/Advertising. We don't care about your shitty Youtube video or new crypto that will "change the world".

• Be Nice. No hate speech of any kind is allowed, as well as generally being a jerk. Talk about the code, not eachother.

• No Direct Contact of the Mods. Please use the modmail, we don't want to be contacted directly.

• Please direct stories without code to /r/talesfromtechsupport, and programming questions to /r/learnprogramming

Programming Horror is where developers come together to revel in the idiocy of our peers.

This subreddit is meant for sharing funny programming related stories and strange or straight-up awful code.

For the sake of not being mauled by rabid lawyer bears, please make sure to anonymize your stories - changing the names of people and companies.

For code examples, indent all your lines with 4 spaces to make it more readable:

foo = 'bar'

Sister subreddits

• talesfromtechsupport - Not everything that involves a computer is a programming horror story. For IT support related submissions, head on over here.
• talesfromdesigners - For our more artistically inclined brothers and sisters.
• badcode - When you don't have a story to go along with the horrible, horrible code.
• shittyprogramming - ninjas that only write in the <b>BEST</b> code
• usemysoftware - A subreddit for software developers to come post their software and for users to test it.