Chrome Extensions for Community Managers Who Never Miss a Thread
Monitor Reddit for community mentions, support questions, and brand conversations in real-time. Keep your X presence clean and engaged. Manage your community from the browser without another dashboard.
Last updated: February 15, 2026
Challenges Community Managers Face Every Day
These are the problems that slow you down. PlugMonkey solves them.
Community conversations happen across too many platforms
Your community is talking on Reddit, X, Discord, and forums — often simultaneously. You cannot be everywhere at once, and the enterprise social listening tools that promise to solve this cost more than your entire community budget. The conversations that matter most slip through the cracks.
Reddit threads move fast and wait for no one
A user just posted a frustrated rant about your product on your subreddit — or worse, on r/technology where 10 million people will see it. By the time you stumble across it, the thread has 200 comments and the narrative is set. You needed to know about it 2 hours ago.
Your X account follows too many people to be useful
As a community manager, you followed hundreds of community members, partners, and stakeholders over the years. Now your timeline is noise, you miss important posts from key community members, and your follower-to-following ratio makes the brand account look unfocused.
Recommended Tools for Community Managers
Handpicked extensions that match your workflow. Each one solves a specific pain point.
Reddit Scout Pro
From $6.99/mo or $49.99 lifetime
Monitor Reddit for mentions of your brand, product, and community topics. Get real-time alerts for support questions, feature requests, complaints, and praise — and respond before threads spiral.
- Real-time email alerts for keyword mentions across unlimited subreddits
- Intent scoring helps prioritize urgent threads (complaints and support requests) over casual mentions
- CSV export for weekly community reports — track mention volume, sentiment trends, and response times
X Unfollow Pro
From $6.99/mo or $49.99 lifetime
Keep your brand's X account clean and focused. Unfollow inactive accounts and non-followers to improve timeline signal, boost engagement visibility, and maintain a professional follower-to-following ratio.
- Whitelist key community members, partners, and stakeholders before bulk cleanup
- Filter and unfollow accounts inactive for 30, 60, or 90 days — clear out abandoned profiles
- Maintain a healthy follower ratio that signals an active, well-managed brand presence
How Community Managers Use PlugMonkey
Real workflows, real results. Here is how teams like yours get value from day one.
Real-Time Brand Monitoring on Reddit
Set up automated monitoring for your brand name, product names, and common misspellings across Reddit. Get alerted to support questions, complaints, and praise while threads are still active — and respond on behalf of the brand.
Add your brand name, product names, and common misspellings as keywords in Reddit Scout Pro
Configure monitors for your official subreddit plus general subreddits where your audience hangs out
Set up real-time email alerts — prioritize threads with negative sentiment or support questions
Respond to support threads with helpful, on-brand replies within the first hour
Export weekly mention data for your community health report — track volume, sentiment, and response time trends
Community Sentiment Early Warning System
Monitor not just your brand mentions, but broader topic keywords that signal shifting community sentiment. Catch emerging issues, trending complaints about your industry, and community requests before they become crises.
Set up keyword monitors for pain-point phrases your community uses (e.g., 'broken update', 'feature removed', 'switched from [your product]')
Add competitor brand names to track when your community members discuss alternatives
Review daily alerts for sentiment patterns — are complaints trending up about a specific feature or issue?
Flag emerging issues to your product team with thread links and context before they escalate
Use intent scoring to separate genuine frustration (needs response) from casual gripes (monitor only)
X Brand Account Maintenance
Periodically clean up your brand's X following list to keep the timeline useful and the account looking professional. Unfollow departed employees, inactive accounts, and non-reciprocal follows while protecting key community relationships.
Whitelist all current partners, community leaders, key customers, and active community members
Run a non-follower scan to identify accounts that do not follow your brand back
Review the list for any accounts worth keeping (industry news, relevant brands) and add them to the whitelist
Bulk unfollow the rest — X Unfollow Pro handles rate limiting automatically
Schedule a monthly cleanup to prevent your following list from bloating again
What Community Managers Are Saying
“We manage a subreddit with 45K members and Reddit Scout Pro has changed how we do it. We get alerted to support threads within minutes, not hours. Our average response time dropped from 6 hours to under 45 minutes on Reddit. The product team even started using the weekly export to track feature requests.”
Sam W.
Community Manager, developer tools company
“Our brand X account was following 3,200 people — half of them inactive or departed employees from partnerships that ended years ago. Cleaned it down to 800 with the whitelist protecting everyone who matters. Timeline is actually useful again.”
Jordan M.
Social & Community Lead, B2C fintech
“Intent scoring is helpful for triage. High-intent threads are almost always someone looking for help or about to churn — exactly the ones I need to jump on. Lower-scoring threads are usually casual mentions I can address in batch. Saves me from treating every mention as urgent.”
Taylor H.
Head of Community, SaaS startup
Never Miss a Community Conversation Again
Community managers using Reddit Scout Pro respond to brand mentions in under an hour instead of discovering them days later. Combined with X audience management, PlugMonkey tools keep your community engagement fast, focused, and scalable.
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