r/unimelb

University of Melbourne

Founded July 2011 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Oct 15

Welcome to r/unimelb, a subreddit dedicated to the University of Melbourne community. Whether you are a current student, staff member, alumnus, or simply interested in the university, this subreddit is for you. This community serves as a platform for discussion on a variety of topics, from academic discussions, campus life experiences, and event updates to news and research insights. Members are encouraged to engage in respectful and informative conversation.

Members

61,245

61K

Online now

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not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

14.6

from the last 100 posts, spanning 6.8 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 14

sampled Oct 15

Distinct posters

93%

of the last 100 posts

Tracking since Oct 15 · 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 15 — growth charts appear after a week of history.

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r/unimelb — frequently asked

How many members does r/unimelb have?

r/unimelb has 61,245 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 15. 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/unimelb growing?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/unimelb yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Oct 15; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/unimelb?

Around 14.6 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 6.8 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/unimelb created?

r/unimelb was founded in July 2011 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/unimelb?

Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 93% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 14. 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/unimelb?

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

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

Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/unimelb'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/unimelb Subreddit Stats — 61.2K members, 14.6 posts/day