r/explainlikeimfive
Explain Like I'm Five is the best forum and archive on the internet for layperson-friendly explanations. Don't Panic!
Members
23,649,140
23.6M
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
26.7
from the last 100 posts, spanning 3.7 days
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
+0.0%
+5.7K members · ≈7d
Growth · 30d
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not enough history yet
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
Aug 28
sampled Aug 28
Distinct posters
93%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Aug 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
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r/explainlikeimfive — frequently asked
How many members does r/explainlikeimfive have?
r/explainlikeimfive has 23,649,140 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 27. 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/explainlikeimfive growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/explainlikeimfive yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 19; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/explainlikeimfive?
Around 26.7 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 3.7 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.
Who posts in r/explainlikeimfive?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 93% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Aug 28. 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/explainlikeimfive?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/explainlikeimfive 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/explainlikeimfive for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/explainlikeimfive 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/explainlikeimfive's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/explainlikeimfive'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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