r/AlternateHistory
Alternate History
Founded June 2010 · Public — anyone can post
The original alternate history subreddit
Members
268,589
269K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
19.4
from the last 100 posts, spanning 5.1 days
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
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not enough history yet
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
Sep 4
sampled Sep 4
Distinct posters
78%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 4 · 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
Tracking since Sep 4 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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Communities that discuss what r/AlternateHistory discusses.
For asking casual questions about historical events prior to 01/01/2001. Also see r/History or r/AskHistorians.
This reddit is for the latest developments in Medieval History: please keep other modern topics on religion and politics in their respective subreddits.
Do you have questions about history that no reliable source can give you? Do you know of some lesser known historical facts that need to be more well known? **Then welcome to r/shittyaskhistory!**
The Portal for Public History. Please read the rules before participating, as we remove all comments which break the rules. Answers must be in-depth and comprehensive, or they will be removed.
Welcome. This is a (positive) community for people who are interested in AI-generated historical art of all types (and non-AI, of course, if you like). No real rules—go wild. Hyper-accurate or totally fanciful, alt-history or straight-up myth. Memes, historical fantasy, obscure corners of the past—bring it all. Cheeky, hyperbolic, a little poetic… that’s the house style.
See the full lists on similar subreddits.
r/AlternateHistory — frequently asked
How many members does r/AlternateHistory have?
r/AlternateHistory has 268,589 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 4. 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/AlternateHistory growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/AlternateHistory yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 4; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/AlternateHistory?
Around 19.4 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 5.1 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/AlternateHistory created?
r/AlternateHistory was founded in June 2010 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.
Who posts in r/AlternateHistory?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 78% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 4. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/AlternateHistory?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/AlternateHistory 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/AlternateHistory for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/AlternateHistory 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/AlternateHistory's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/AlternateHistory'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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