r/dreamcast

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Founded March 2010 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Oct 21

The subreddit for everything Sega Dreamcast. Collections, questions, finds, pictures, games, Homebrew, videos, anything DC related.

Members

102,744

103K

Online now

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not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

11.3

from the last 100 posts, spanning 8.8 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 21

sampled Oct 21

Distinct posters

91%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Oct 21 · 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 21 — growth charts appear after a week of history.

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r/dreamcast — frequently asked

How many members does r/dreamcast have?

r/dreamcast has 102,744 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 21. 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/dreamcast growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/dreamcast yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Oct 21; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/dreamcast?

Around 11.3 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 8.8 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/dreamcast created?

r/dreamcast was founded in March 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/dreamcast?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 91% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 21. 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/dreamcast?

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

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

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r/dreamcast Subreddit Stats — 103K members, 11.3 posts/day