r/fountainpens
fountain pens
Founded August 2010 · Public — anyone can post
/r/fountainpens - A community for fountain pen enthusiasts, from the novice to the collector. Please join our discord server: https://discord.com/invite/pendemic-773352251845771315
Members
513,959
514K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
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Growth · 7d
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Growth · 30d
+9.3%
+44K members · ≈27d
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Tracking since Sep 5 · 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.
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r/fountainpens — frequently asked
How many members does r/fountainpens have?
r/fountainpens has 513,959 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 2. 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/fountainpens growing?
Over the last ≈27 days r/fountainpens changed by +9.3% — a gain of 44K 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/fountainpens?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/fountainpens yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/fountainpens created?
r/fountainpens was founded in August 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.
Can I promote my product in r/fountainpens?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/fountainpens 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/fountainpens for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/fountainpens 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/fountainpens's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/fountainpens'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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