r/hammer

Valve Hammer Editor

Founded June 2010 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 29

This subreddit is meant for everything around the mapping tool Hammer. Here you can post questions, get feedback, help others, or simply brag about your work!

Members

35,599

36K

Online now

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not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

5.9

from the last 100 posts, spanning 16.8 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

Sep 28

sampled Sep 29

Distinct posters

83%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Sep 29 · 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 29 — growth charts appear after a week of history.

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r/hammer — frequently asked

How many members does r/hammer have?

r/hammer has 35,599 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 29. 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/hammer growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/hammer yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 29; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/hammer?

Around 5.9 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 16.8 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/hammer created?

r/hammer was founded in June 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/hammer?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 83% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 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/hammer?

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

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

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/hammer'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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r/hammer Subreddit Stats — 35.6K members, 5.9 posts/day