r/LongDistance

For couples who can't be in the same room

Founded November 2010 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 16

r/LongDistance is a subreddit for and about long distance relationships. For anyone considering(but not seeking), currently in, or who used to be, this is the community for you! We are here for support, advice, and community who can relate to your experiences. We are people who met online, students studying across the country and abroad, people separated by jobs and the military, and more.

Members

2,484,625

2.5M

Online now

not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

71.9

from the last 100 posts, spanning 33.1h

Comments per post

no sample yet

Growth · 7d

not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

not enough history yet

Promo tolerance

not assessed yet

Last post

Sep 16

sampled Sep 16

Distinct posters

99%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Sep 16 · 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 16 — growth charts appear after a week of history.

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r/LongDistance — frequently asked

How many members does r/LongDistance have?

r/LongDistance has 2,484,625 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 16. 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/LongDistance growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/LongDistance yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 16; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/LongDistance?

Around 71.9 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 33.1h. 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/LongDistance created?

r/LongDistance was founded in November 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/LongDistance?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 99% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 16. 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/LongDistance?

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

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

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/LongDistance'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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