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What AI assistants say about Reddit

We asked ChatGPT

“What are the best online discussion communities? Which would you recommend and why?”

Reddit was among the recommendations

Also named:

Stack ExchangeStack OverflowSuperuserHacker NewsDiscord

“Short answer: there’s no single “best” - the right discussion community depends on your topic, whether you want real‑time chat or slow threaded discussion, how much moderation and privacy you need, and whether you want expert answers or casual conversation. Below I list the most widely used, what they’re best at, pros/cons, and quick recommendations by use case. Major communities and what they’re good for - Reddit (t…”

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0/100 AI-readiness

www.reddit.com (official site, from public records) · can the AI crawlers read the site? Checked by code, not by a model.

AI assistants can read pages when answering (robots.txt):Blocked from the whole site: ChatGPT (OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User), Claude (Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot), Perplexity (PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User), Google AI Overviews and AI Mode (Googlebot), Microsoft Copilot (Bingbot), Mistral (MistralAI-User). Those assistants cannot read anything you publish when a buyer asks about you.
AI models may train on the site (robots.txt):OpenAI (GPTBot), Anthropic (ClaudeBot), Google Gemini (Google-Extended), Common Crawl (CCBot), Apple (Applebot-Extended), Meta (Meta-ExternalAgent), ByteDance (Bytespider) are blocked, so future versions of these models will not learn about the brand from its own pages (Common Crawl feeds many models' training sets). A deliberate choice for many brands: it does not stop assistants reading the site when answering, but what they know from memory then comes from other people's pages.
llms.txt for AI assistants:Not found. An llms.txt gives AI tools a reliable, curated summary of who you are.
Homepage reachable:Homepage returned HTTP 403.
One live question to one assistant, asked by PollyX on Oct 15, 2026 and asked again about once a month. Assistants answer differently every time, so this is a sample, not a score. The full check asks 12 buyer questions of nine assistants and records every page each one reads. How AI visibility is measured

Is Reddit the first recommendation, and how is it described?

That was one question to one assistant. The full check asks nine assistants 12 buyer questions each, shows where Reddit is first, listed or absent, who is named instead, which pages the assistants read, and what to publish to change it.

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