r/BoardGameExchange

Board Game Exchange

Founded April 2014 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Oct 19

Welcome to the r/BoardGameExchange market, the #1 trading community for tabletop games on Reddit. Trade, sell, and barter for games.

Members

37,616

38K

Online now

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not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

7.8

from the last 100 posts, spanning 12.7 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

Oct 19

sampled Oct 19

Distinct posters

88%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Oct 19 · 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 Oct 19 — growth charts appear after a week of history.

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r/BoardGameExchange — frequently asked

How many members does r/BoardGameExchange have?

r/BoardGameExchange has 37,616 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 19. 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/BoardGameExchange growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/BoardGameExchange yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Oct 19; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/BoardGameExchange?

Around 7.8 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 12.7 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/BoardGameExchange created?

r/BoardGameExchange was founded in April 2014 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/BoardGameExchange?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 88% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 19. 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/BoardGameExchange?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/BoardGameExchange 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/BoardGameExchange for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/BoardGameExchange 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/BoardGameExchange's stats?

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