r/Fencesitter

To parent or to not parent. That is the question.

Founded May 2015 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 8

A safe place for those who aren't sure whether they want to have kids, or not. Post and share stories for both sides, questions you may have, and anything else you can think of (applicable to the subject at hand).

Members

91,029

91K

Online now

not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

7.6

from the last 100 posts, spanning 13.1 days

Comments per post

no sample yet

Growth · 7d

not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

not enough history yet

Promo tolerance

not assessed yet

Last post

Sep 8

sampled Sep 8

Distinct posters

98%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Sep 8 · 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 Sep 8 — growth charts appear after a week of history.

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r/Fencesitter — frequently asked

How many members does r/Fencesitter have?

r/Fencesitter has 91,029 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 8. 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/Fencesitter growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/Fencesitter yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 8; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/Fencesitter?

Around 7.6 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 13.1 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/Fencesitter created?

r/Fencesitter was founded in May 2015 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/Fencesitter?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 98% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 8. 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/Fencesitter?

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

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

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r/Fencesitter Subreddit Stats — 91K members, 7.6 posts/day