r/IBD
IBD: Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease
Founded January 2010 · Public — anyone can post
We're a support community for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) patients with Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, and their loved ones. We're not a substitute for your gasteroenterologist doctor and cannot treat or diagnose you, but we can offer encouragement and discuss our personal IBD experiences.
Members
30,248
30K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
7.0
from the last 100 posts, spanning 14.1 days
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+1.1%
+322 members · ≈32d
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
Sep 10
sampled Sep 10
Distinct posters
93%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Jul 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
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r/IBD — frequently asked
How many members does r/IBD have?
r/IBD has 30,248 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 10. 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/IBD growing?
Over the last ≈32 days r/IBD changed by +1.1% — a gain of 322 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/IBD?
Around 7.0 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 14.1 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/IBD created?
r/IBD was founded in January 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/IBD?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 93% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 10. 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/IBD?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/IBD 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/IBD for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/IBD 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/IBD's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/IBD'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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