r/ObsidianMD
Obsidian
Founded May 2020 · Public — anyone can post
Subreddit for the Obsidian notes app https://obsidian.md
Members
370,047
370K
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
14.9
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+2.3%
+8.3K members · ≈33d
Published rules
4
1 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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no sample yet
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/ObsidianMD's rules say about promotion
1 of 4 published rules mentions promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
Don’t shill
rule 3 of 4
If you are just here to advertise your product, don’t.
The other 3
- Be nice to everyone
- Memes go in the meme subreddit, not here
- Use the "ai" flair for AI posts
Read from r/ObsidianMD’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/ObsidianMD — frequently asked
How many members does r/ObsidianMD have?
r/ObsidianMD has 370,047 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/ObsidianMD growing?
Over the last ≈33 days r/ObsidianMD changed by +2.3% — a gain of 8.3K 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/ObsidianMD?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/ObsidianMD 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/ObsidianMD created?
r/ObsidianMD was founded in May 2020 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/ObsidianMD?
r/ObsidianMD publishes 4 rules and 1 of them addresses promotion. The first, “Don’t shill”, says: If you are just here to advertise your product, don’t. 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/ObsidianMD for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/ObsidianMD 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/ObsidianMD's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/ObsidianMD'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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