r/AskEngineers
AskEngineers: Stop nodding, start asking questions.
Founded March 2011 · Public — anyone can post
Engineers apply the knowledge of math & science to design and manufacture maintainable systems used to solve specific problems. AskEngineers is a forum for questions about the technologies, standards, and processes used to design & build these systems, as well as for questions about the engineering profession and its many disciplines.
Members
2,744,366
2.7M
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
3.3
from the last 100 posts, spanning 30.0 days
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+0.2%
+4.3K members · ≈33d
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
Sep 15
sampled Sep 15
Distinct posters
91%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Jul 31 · 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/engineering is a forum for engineering professionals to share information, knowledge, experience related to the principles & practices of the numerous engineering disciplines. r/engineering is **NOT** for students to ask for guidance on selecting their major, or for homework / project help. Read the sidebar BEFORE posting.
A community for those that practice the broad discipline of mechanical engineering.
The gathering place for mechanical engineers to discuss current technology, methods, jobs, and anything else related to mechanical engineering.
A place to ask questions, discuss topics and share projects related to Electrical Engineering.
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r/AskEngineers — frequently asked
How many members does r/AskEngineers have?
r/AskEngineers has 2,744,366 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 15. 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/AskEngineers growing?
Over the last ≈33 days r/AskEngineers changed by +0.2% — a gain of 4.3K 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/AskEngineers?
Around 3.3 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 30.0 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/AskEngineers created?
r/AskEngineers was founded in March 2011 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/AskEngineers?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 91% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 15. 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/AskEngineers?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/AskEngineers 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/AskEngineers for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/AskEngineers 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/AskEngineers's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/AskEngineers'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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