r/writingadvice
Get Good At Writing, Scrub
Founded March 2014 · Public — anyone can post
Get writing advice, share writing for critique, and talk about writing. Everyone is welcome. Join our discord: https://discord.gg/nn7cUSKxn3
Members
143,153
143K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
17.2
from the last 100 posts, spanning 5.8 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
Sep 12
sampled Sep 12
Distinct posters
92%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 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 Sep 12 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
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r/writingadvice — frequently asked
How many members does r/writingadvice have?
r/writingadvice has 143,153 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 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/writingadvice growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/writingadvice yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 12; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/writingadvice?
Around 17.2 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 5.8 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/writingadvice created?
r/writingadvice was founded in March 2014 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/writingadvice?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 92% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 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/writingadvice?
We don't have a promo-tolerance read for r/writingadvice 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/writingadvice for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/writingadvice 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/writingadvice's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/writingadvice'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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