About r/beta
In its own words:
An official community of beta testers for reddit.com
Community guide
r/beta (#739, about 1.4 million subscribers) — An official community of beta testers for reddit.com A recent sample averaged 0.0 posts a day. Its public rules include: Post feedback for Reddit's beta/new features; Disable extensions before reporting; Check for duplicates; Be nice to each other.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Match posts to: Post feedback for Reddit's beta/new features; Disable extensions before reporting; Check for duplicates; Be nice to each other.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change. Search before reposting common clips or questions.
The community was created on May 7, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 737 subscribers (+0.05%). It sits just behind r/FuckYouKaren (#738) and ahead of r/electronics (#740) in our ranking.
What sets r/beta apart
People mostly look and upvote here rather than comment — about 6.3 comments per post, against 13.0 for a typical large subreddit.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/beta climbed from 1,429,418 to 1,434,896 subscribers (+5.5K, +0.38%). That is about 107 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/beta, from 2015 to 2019, ranked by Reddit.
- Dear Reddit: Please remember why Digg went down.u/delicious_tomato · Mar 19, 2018 · 12,567 points · 1,390 comments · text post
- [feedback] The new profile pages is exactly the reason I left other websites.Mar 21, 2017 · 5,327 points · 444 comments · text post
- Downvoting an ad should tell Reddit I’m not interested in that product/site, etc and stop it showing up (ideally) as much.u/jetteh22 · Jul 23, 2018 · 5,333 points · 221 comments · text post
- Not letting us comments on promoted content is horribleu/c0ldfusi0n · Nov 7, 2018 · 4,215 points · 215 comments · text post
- Please stop asking me to use the appJul 2, 2018 · 3,708 points · 341 comments · text post
- Instead of putting more ads on pages, create more of an incentive to buy Reddit Gold.Jun 8, 2018 · 3,279 points · 249 comments · text post
- Please, add an NSFL tag.u/Xorume · Nov 12, 2018 · 3,216 points · 170 comments · text post
- [Feedback] please don't ever remove old.reddit.comu/hellafun · May 24, 2018 · 3,054 points · 496 comments · text post
- [Feedback] As reddit grows newer posts naturally aggregate higher vote counts which means that in most cases "Top: Year" and "Top: All Time" are identical. Give us an option to pick "Top: 2014" or "T…u/Son_of_York · Dec 28, 2017 · 2,615 points · 56 comments · text post
- The ads shouldn't be so similar to posts.u/Parentheseas · Jun 24, 2018 · 2,538 points · 140 comments · text post
Activity and best time to post
The public archive holds 38,495 posts and 244,238 comments in total, about 6.3 comments per post.
Rules of r/beta
The moderators of r/beta list 4 rules. In short:
- Post feedback for Reddit's beta/new features
- Disable extensions before reporting
- Check for duplicates
- Be nice to each other
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/beta and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many members does r/beta have?
r/beta has 1,434,896 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #739 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 5,478 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
When was r/beta created?
r/beta was created on May 7, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Feb 26, 2015.
Is r/beta still active?
Over its lifetime the archive counts 38,495 posts and 244,238 comments.
What kind of posts are on r/beta?
The community describes itself as: “An official community of beta testers for reddit.com”
Is r/beta SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/beta as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/beta?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/beta accepts text posts only, with galleries enabled. It has 4 posted rules, starting with: “Post feedback for Reddit's beta/new features”; “Disable extensions before reporting”; “Check for duplicates”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 9, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026; top posts from Reddit’s public feeds). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/beta.