r/Advice

Founded June 2008 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 11

This is a place where you can ask for advice on many subjects. Everybody has issues that they run into, and everyone needs advice every now and again. This is Reddit's very own solution-hub.

Members

3,111,702

3.1M

Online now

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not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

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Comments per post

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Growth · 7d

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not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

+1.6%

+49K members · ≈32d

Promo tolerance

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not assessed yet

Last post

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Distinct posters

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Tracking since Aug 10 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.

Member growth

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r/Advice — frequently asked

How many members does r/Advice have?

r/Advice has 3,111,702 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 11. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.

Is r/Advice growing?

Over the last ≈32 days r/Advice changed by +1.6% — a gain of 49K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".

How active is r/Advice?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/Advice yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.

When was r/Advice created?

r/Advice was founded in June 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.

Can I promote my product in r/Advice?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/Advice yet. Default to the safe approach: read the sidebar rules, contribute in threads where you gain nothing, and mention your product only when it is the honest answer to someone's question.

How do I monitor r/Advice for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/Advice into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.

Can my AI agent read r/Advice's stats?

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/Advice's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.

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r/Advice Subreddit Stats — 3.11M members, +1.6% in 32d