r/homelab
Founded June 2012 · Public — anyone can post
Welcome to your friendly /r/homelab, where techies and sysadmin from everywhere are welcome to share their labs, projects, builds, etc.
Members
1,094,105
1.1M
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
28.6
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+2.0%
+21K members · ≈37d
Promo tolerance
high
read the sidebar rules first
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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no sample yet
Tracking since Aug 18 · 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/homelab — frequently asked
How many members does r/homelab have?
r/homelab has 1,094,105 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 24. 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/homelab growing?
Over the last ≈37 days r/homelab changed by +2.0% — a gain of 21K 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/homelab?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/homelab 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/homelab created?
r/homelab was founded in June 2012 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/homelab?
Our read on r/homelab is high promo tolerance. It has a promo-friendly culture or a dedicated thread, but that still means being useful first. Always read the sidebar rules before you post; moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/homelab for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/homelab 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/homelab's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/homelab'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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