r/linuxadmin
linuxadmin: Expanding Linux SysAdmin knowledge
Founded October 2009 · Public — anyone can post
users voted
Members
255,888
256K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
2.5
from the last 100 posts, spanning 40.2 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
medium
read the sidebar rules first
Last post
Sep 1
sampled Sep 2
Distinct posters
77%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 2 · 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 2 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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r/linuxadmin — frequently asked
How many members does r/linuxadmin have?
r/linuxadmin has 255,888 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 2. 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/linuxadmin growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/linuxadmin yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 2; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/linuxadmin?
Around 2.5 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 40.2 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/linuxadmin created?
r/linuxadmin was founded in October 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.
Who posts in r/linuxadmin?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 77% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 1. 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/linuxadmin?
Our read on r/linuxadmin is medium promo tolerance. A product mention is fine when it genuinely answers the question asked, and unwelcome when it does not. Always read the sidebar rules before you post; moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/linuxadmin for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/linuxadmin 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/linuxadmin's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/linuxadmin'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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