r/simpleliving

Live Better With Less

Founded June 2009 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Oct 10

Breaking free of the work/spend/borrow cycle in order to live more fully, sustainably, and cooperatively.

Members

1,603,655

1.6M

Online now

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not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

5.1

from the last 100 posts, spanning 19.5 days

Comments per post

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no sample yet

Growth · 7d

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not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

+0.5%

+7.7K members · ≈32d

Promo tolerance

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not assessed yet

Last post

Oct 10

sampled Oct 10

Distinct posters

89%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Sep 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.

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r/simpleliving — frequently asked

How many members does r/simpleliving have?

r/simpleliving has 1,603,655 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 10. 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/simpleliving growing?

Over the last ≈32 days r/simpleliving changed by +0.5% — a gain of 7.7K 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/simpleliving?

Around 5.1 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 19.5 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/simpleliving created?

r/simpleliving was founded in June 2009 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/simpleliving?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 89% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 10. 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/simpleliving?

We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/simpleliving 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/simpleliving for mentions?

Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/simpleliving 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/simpleliving's stats?

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