r/productivity
Founded January 2008 · Public — anyone can post
Tips and tricks for being more productive!
Members
4,244,833
4.2M
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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Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+0.3%
+11K members · ≈28d
Published rules
6
2 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
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Distinct posters
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Tracking since Aug 8 · 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/productivity's rules say about promotion
2 of 6 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
No Advertising
rule 2 of 6
No soliciting or surveying of products or services of any type. Self-promotion is not allowed here in any form, even if asked for recommendations. Advertising via DMs and referral codes are included in this rule.
No Off Topic, Spam, AI-generated posts, SEO Farming, or Low Effort Content.
rule 6 of 6
Off topic: This is a subreddit for civil discussion about the topic of productivity, how to improve productivity, and similarly intertwined subjects. Posts must be on topic. Spam & SEO Farming: Asking for upvotes, donations/money, and promotional/link farming is considered spam. Low effort & AI-Generated: Posts and comments must add value to the subreddit. This includes any AI-generated posts.
Removal reason shown to posters: No Off Topic, Spam, SEO Farming, or Low Effort Content
The other 4
- Be Civil and Stay Positive
- No Listicles
- No Isolated Links
- No NSFW Content
Read from r/productivity’s published rules on May 28. 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/productivity — frequently asked
How many members does r/productivity have?
r/productivity has 4,244,833 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 5. 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/productivity growing?
Over the last ≈28 days r/productivity changed by +0.3% — a gain of 11K 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/productivity?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/productivity 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/productivity created?
r/productivity 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/productivity?
r/productivity publishes 6 rules and 2 of them address promotion. The first, “No Advertising”, says: No soliciting or surveying of products or services of any type. Self-promotion is not allowed here in any form, even if asked for recommendations. Advertising via DMs and referral codes are included in this rule. 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/productivity for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/productivity 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/productivity's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/productivity'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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