How Reddit Monitoring Works

Monitoring Schedule

Automatic Scanning Frequency:

• Primary scans: Every 30 minutes at 10 and 40 minutes past each hour

• Pre-daily email scans: Additional scans run 10 minutes before each hour when daily emails can go out.

• This means around the clock, 24/7 RedditMentions is hunting for mentions for you at least every 30 minutes.

What Content Gets Monitored

Posts:

• Post titles (the main headline)

• Post content/body text (for text posts)

• Link posts are tracked by title only

Comments:

• Full comment text

• Nested comments at all levels

• Comments on any post in the monitored subreddit

For both posts and comments, the searches take place in the “New” section of the subreddit

How Much Gets Monitored

Subreddit Scanning

• The system fetches the latest posts and comments from your monitored subreddits

• Limits: 150 recent posts + 500 recent comments per subreddit per scan

⚠️ For the vast majority of subreddits, this is enough to capture all matches. However, if you are trying to capture matches in a very popular subreddit that has more than the above posts/comments every 30 mins, then RedditMentions can miss some of them unfortunately!

How matches get delivered

Your key mentions, nothing more

• Notification queuing: Matches are queued for your daily digest email, but if needed are easily visible in your Matches section of the app in real-time.

• Duplicate prevention: Tracks processed posts to avoid duplicate notifications, you will only get a match once.

• Daily email delivery: Once per day at your chosen time e.g. 10:00 UTC

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