r/mac

Founded January 2008 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 28

The community for everything related to Apple's Mac computers!

Members

3,060,263

3.1M

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

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no sample yet

Growth · 7d

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not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

+0.2%

+5.7K members · ≈24d

Promo tolerance

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not assessed yet

Last post

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no sample yet

Distinct posters

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no sample yet

Tracking since Sep 3 · 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/mac — frequently asked

How many members does r/mac have?

r/mac has 3,060,263 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 28. 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/mac growing?

Over the last ≈24 days r/mac changed by +0.2% — a gain of 5.7K 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/mac?

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

r/mac was founded in January 2008 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/mac?

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

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

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