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r/HomeNetworking

HomeNetworking, community based networking help

Founded September 2010 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Oct 9

HomeNetworking is a place where anyone can ask for help with their home or small office computer network. No question is too small, but please be sure to read the rules and the FAQ before asking for help. We also welcome pretty much anything else related to small networks.

Members

589,226

589K

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Growth · 7d

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Growth · 30d

+1.0%

+5.8K members · ≈31d

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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.

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r/HomeNetworking — frequently asked

How many members does r/HomeNetworking have?

r/HomeNetworking has 589,226 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 9. 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/HomeNetworking growing?

Over the last ≈31 days r/HomeNetworking changed by +1.0% — a gain of 5.8K 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/HomeNetworking?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/HomeNetworking 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/HomeNetworking created?

r/HomeNetworking was founded in September 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/HomeNetworking?

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

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

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/HomeNetworking'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/HomeNetworking Subreddit Stats — 589K members