r/golang
The Go Programming Language
Founded November 2009 · Public — anyone can post
Ask questions and post articles about the Go programming language and related tools, events etc.
Members
380,798
381K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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no sample yet
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+1.0%
+3.8K members · ≈36d
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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no sample yet
Tracking since Aug 10 · 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/golang — frequently asked
How many members does r/golang have?
r/golang has 380,798 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 17. 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/golang growing?
Over the last ≈36 days r/golang changed by +1.0% — a gain of 3.8K 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/golang?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/golang 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/golang created?
r/golang was founded in November 2009 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/golang?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/golang 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/golang for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/golang 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/golang's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/golang'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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