r/cats
Founded April 2008 · Public — anyone can post
Pictures, videos, questions, and articles featuring/about cats.
Members
9,473,841
9.5M
Online now
—
not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
737
from the last 100 posts, spanning 3.2h
Comments per post
—
no sample yet
Growth · 7d
+0.2%
+18K members · ≈7d
Growth · 30d
+1.0%
+90K members · ≈30d
Promo tolerance
—
not assessed yet
Last post
Sep 24
sampled Sep 24
Distinct posters
100%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Aug 7 · 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/cats — frequently asked
How many members does r/cats have?
r/cats has 9,473,841 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 24. 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/cats growing?
Over the last ≈30 days r/cats changed by +1.0% — a gain of 90K 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/cats?
Around 737 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 3.2h. 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/cats created?
r/cats was founded in April 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.
Who posts in r/cats?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 100% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 24. 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/cats?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/cats 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/cats for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/cats 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/cats's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/cats'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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