r/AskHistorians
Founded August 2011 · Public — anyone can post
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.
Members
2,851,763
2.9M
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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no sample yet
Comments per post
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Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+1.2%
+35K members · ≈31d
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
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Distinct posters
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no sample yet
Tracking since Aug 3 · 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/AskHistorians — frequently asked
How many members does r/AskHistorians have?
r/AskHistorians has 2,851,763 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 3. 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/AskHistorians growing?
Over the last ≈31 days r/AskHistorians changed by +1.2% — a gain of 35K 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/AskHistorians?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/AskHistorians 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/AskHistorians created?
r/AskHistorians was founded in August 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.
Can I promote my product in r/AskHistorians?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/AskHistorians 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/AskHistorians for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/AskHistorians 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/AskHistorians's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/AskHistorians'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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