r/networking

Updated Aug 25

Enterprise Networking Design, Support, and Discussion. Enterprise Networking -- Routers, switches, wireless, and firewalls. Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Fortinet, and more are welcome.

Members

449,241

449K

Online now

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Posts per day

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Comments per post

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Growth · 7d

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Growth · 30d

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Promo tolerance

high

read the sidebar rules first

Last post

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Distinct posters

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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.

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r/networking — frequently asked

How many members does r/networking have?

r/networking has 449,241 members as of our most recent crawl on Aug 25. 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?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/networking yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 7; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/networking?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/networking 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.

Can I promote my product in r/networking?

Our read on r/networking is high promo tolerance. It has a promo-friendly culture or a dedicated thread, but that still means being useful first. Always read the sidebar rules before you post; 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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r/networking: 449K members — stats & growth (Aug 2026)