DOU.ua
DOU · also DOU
Ukraine's largest IT community site, launched in 2005, with job listings, company profiles, salary surveys and a forum, in Ukrainian and English.
DOU describes itself as "the largest IT community in Ukraine." The site launched in spring 2005; the Ukrainian Wikipedia lists Maksym Ishchenko as its author. Besides IT job listings and a company database, it is known for regular salary statistics and surveys. The interface is in Ukrainian and English.
DOU's forum is open to user discussion on topics well beyond technology. By October 2026 a thread about the idea of "economic reservation" had drawn more than a thousand comments, arguing over paying to avoid mobilization, taxes and corruption. Forum users are mostly IT workers and do not represent Ukrainian society as a whole.
Sources
- DOU (Wikipedia (Ukrainian), accessed 2026-10-24)
- Economic reservation (forum thread) (DOU.ua forum, accessed 2026-10-24)
In our stories
We read three threads on DOU, eleven on Reddit and excerpts from six boards of the Ukrainian file-sharing forum Toloka, from October 2025 to October 2026.
A language map in the fifth year of war: home, law and "Kyiv Russian" →
We read a year of public discussion on three platforms: 3 threads on the DOU.ua forum with 1,616 comments (March to October 2026), read in full in a logged-out browser; 11 Reddit threads with about 520 comments captured …
What the mainstream media saw, and what the forums add →
The DOU user who brought his words to the forum did the maths: $1,500 is about 65,000 hryvnias (UAH); if one in twenty of the wanted draft evaders and of those holding deferments on paper as students or carers agreed to …
"Pay and you won't have to fight": a proposal that set an IT forum alight →
DOU is a community of Ukrainian IT workers, so these proportions describe this thread only and cannot be extrapolated to the country.
"Pay and you won't have to fight": a proposal that set an IT forum alight →
DOU is Ukraine's largest community of IT workers.
"What do I owe?": a duty debate that ran for two months →
We read public political discussions from the past year on two platforms: 8 threads on the DOU forum, 2,732 comments in all (November 2025 to September 2026), read in full in a browser without logging in; and 9 Reddit th…
How the mainstream media see it, and what the forums add →
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