New here, what does devrant do differently from places like /r/programmerhumor? What keeps you guys coming back?

Spend some time here and you will come to know eventually

Because it's not as lame as reddit.

There's a separate section for jokes/memes here. You can explicitly hide this section and quite some people do this because they think this is devRant (parenthesis on the rant part) and don't like jokes/memes on this social platform :)

Its like someone took the toxicity of stackoverflow and inverted it