r/userexperience

User Experience

Founded June 2008 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 9

A community where professionals, enthusiasts, and individuals interested in the field of user experience can share knowledge, ask questions, and engage in discussions about various UX-related topics.

Members

148,434

148K

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Growth · 7d

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Growth · 30d

+0.6%

+845 members · ≈33d

Published rules

8

2 mention promotion — quoted below

Last post

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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/userexperience's rules say about promotion

2 of 8 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.

  1. No blog-spam, paid events, or marketing materials

    rule 3 of 8

  2. No self-promotion without prior contributions

    rule 8 of 8

    Please contribute to the community before showing off your own work or materials. Aim for a 10:1 ratio.

The other 6

  • No off-topic posts
  • No surveying or research recruitment
  • No memes, images of poor UI, or other non-constructive image posts
  • No job postings
  • No Rants
  • Post career questions and requests for critique in their respective stickied threads

Read from r/userexperience’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/userexperience — frequently asked

How many members does r/userexperience have?

r/userexperience has 148,434 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 9. 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/userexperience growing?

Over the last ≈33 days r/userexperience changed by +0.6% — a gain of 845 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/userexperience?

We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/userexperience 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/userexperience created?

r/userexperience was founded in June 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/userexperience?

r/userexperience publishes 8 rules and 2 of them address promotion. The first, “No blog-spam, paid events, or marketing materials” 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/userexperience for mentions?

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

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