r/Old_Recipes
Post your old recipes here - things from old books, family recipes, old pamphlets, etc..
Founded June 2019 · Public — anyone can post
Old recipes are interesting and sometimes amazing. Please share yours here.
Members
552,469
552K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
6.7
from the last 100 posts, spanning 14.8 days
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
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not enough history yet
Promo tolerance
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not assessed yet
Last post
Oct 12
sampled Oct 12
Distinct posters
37%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Oct 12 · 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 Oct 12 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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r/Old_Recipes — frequently asked
How many members does r/Old_Recipes have?
r/Old_Recipes has 552,469 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/Old_Recipes growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/Old_Recipes yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Oct 12; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/Old_Recipes?
Around 6.7 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 14.8 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/Old_Recipes created?
r/Old_Recipes was founded in June 2019 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/Old_Recipes?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 37% 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/Old_Recipes?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/Old_Recipes 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/Old_Recipes for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/Old_Recipes 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/Old_Recipes's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/Old_Recipes'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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