r/networking
Enterprise Networking Design, Support, and Discussion
Founded July 2008 · Public — anyone can post
Enterprise Networking Design, Support, and Discussion. Enterprise Networking -- Routers, switches, wireless, and firewalls. Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Fortinet, and more are welcome.
Members
454,690
455K
Online now
—
not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
4.8
from the last 100 posts, spanning 20.7 days
Comments per post
—
no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+0.8%
+3.7K members · ≈33d
Published rules
8
1 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
Oct 12
sampled Oct 12
Distinct posters
87%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Aug 7 · 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
What r/networking's rules say about promotion
1 of 8 published rules mentions promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
Rule #3: No Advertisements or Promotional Content.
rule 3 of 8
Directing our members to resources outside the subreddit is closely monitored. * We prohibit the advertising of products, services or personal projects. * Asking for assistance with product/market research for your product or project is not permitted. * You may share a URL to a blog that answers questions already in discussion. * Please use the *Blogpost Friday!* sticky thread to announce the existence of your blog.
The other 7
- Rule #1: No Home Networking.
- Rule #2: No Certification Brain Dumps / Cheating.
- Rule #4: No Low Quality Posts.
- Rule #5: No Early Career Advice.
- Rule #6: Educational Questions must show effort.
- Rule #7: No Political Posts.
- Rule #8: No ChatGPT/LLM Content.
Read from r/networking’s published rules on Mar 12. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.
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r/networking — frequently asked
How many members does r/networking have?
r/networking has 454,690 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 12. 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/networking growing?
Over the last ≈33 days r/networking changed by +0.8% — a gain of 3.7K 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/networking?
Around 4.8 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 20.7 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/networking created?
r/networking was founded in July 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.
Who posts in r/networking?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 87% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 12. 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/networking?
r/networking publishes 8 rules and 1 of them addresses promotion. The first, “Rule #3: No Advertisements or Promotional Content.”, says: Directing our members to resources outside the subreddit is closely monitored. * We prohibit the advertising of products, services or personal projects. * Asking for assistance with product/market research for your… Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/networking for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/networking 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/networking's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/networking'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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