About r/help
In its own words:
Reddit Tech Support and more! Ask about Reddit's features and culture, news about recent changes, and updates about large scale issues affecting the site. Not looking for help with Reddit? /r/findareddit can help you find somewhere to post.
Community guide
r/help (#785, about 1.4 million subscribers) — Reddit Tech Support and more! Ask about Reddit's features and culture, news about recent changes, and updates about large scale issues affecting the site. Not looking for help with Reddit? /r/findareddit can help you… A recent sample averaged 146 posts a day (~83% text, ~16% image, ~1% video). Its public rules include: Questions must be about Reddit itself.; Keep it civil.; Keep it helpful.; Calling out or complaining about specific subreddits/users; Appeals/Bans.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Match posts to: Questions must be about Reddit itself.; Keep it civil.; Keep it helpful.; Calling out or complaining about specific subreddits/users.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. Skim the full public rule list once rather than assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; rules can change. Common flairs include: Access, Profile, Posting, Mobile/App. Volume is high—clear titles help.
The community was created on Jan 25, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Nov 2, 2026, it has gained 1,233 subscribers (+0.09%). It sits just behind r/TwoHotTakes (#785) and ahead of r/Eminem (#787) in our ranking.
What sets r/help apart
Compared with other large communities, r/help leans heavily on text posts (83% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 35%). People mostly look and upvote here rather than comment — about 2.6 comments per post, against 13.0 for a typical large subreddit. For its size it is unusually busy: about 107.1 new posts a day per million members, more than 96% of the Top 100.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026, r/help climbed from 1,349,125 to 1,359,266 subscribers (+10.1K, +0.75%). That is about 199 new members per day. The chart shows 10 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/help this week
This week’s highest-ranked posts, in Reddit’s own order (collected Nov 8, 2026).
- Can a Reddit admin take me off from "experiments"?u/Phosquitos · Nov 3 · text post
- Remove "For You" tabu/kiralikesdrawing · Nov 4 · text post
- I'm noticing more ads (or at least ads with big images) at the start of comment section latelyu/aranvandil · Nov 5 · text post
- Why are even innocuous comments apparently getting downvoted?u/corporatebshq · Nov 6 · image
- Reddit saved me 🙏u/UnknownM1978 · Nov 6 · image
- Why did thumbnails disappear?u/omegaequalsone · Nov 6 · image
- I got a year of reddit premium without any idea howu/Calor_ow · Nov 5 · image
- I see ads despite having Premium until October 2027u/I_am_Nic · Nov 4 · image
- Why are the comment threads like this on Android mobile?u/08Dreaj08 · Nov 3 · image
- Reddit's New Desktop Update Makes Adding Photos to Text Posts More Complicated Than Necessaryu/Waffles4prez · Nov 7 · image
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/help, from 2019 to 2026, ranked by Reddit.
- Are the "upvote to get 250 reddit coins" actually real or just bait?u/FoxxGaming01 · Dec 19, 2019 · 5,776 points · 506 comments · text post
- Cannot leave a subreddit.Oct 9, 2024 · text post
- I hate the new reddit experience (Dec 2023)u/rogert2 · Dec 7, 2023 · text post
- My brother was banned from reddit due to posting the meme text of "I am 12 what is this". The appeal was rejected. What can he do?u/sky28 · Aug 20, 2019 · 763 points · 93 comments · text post
- Hi reddit :)u/daviddanner1969 · May 10, 2020 · text post
- Reddit App keeps playing the wrong videosu/DidntAskGonnaTell · Jul 14, 2021 · 1,225 points · 216 comments · text post
- Desktop Mac: Upvotes Out of Whacku/calissa2225 · Dec 18, 2024 · text post
- Help! Why no one has unlocked this on Reddit ?u/pranmishra · Jul 31, 2026 · image
- Icantputspacesinmytitlesu/stufflyD · Apr 15, 2020 · 868 points · 125 comments · text post
- hey, is there a subreddit where I can get birthday wishes from strangers, just turned 20 and i'm kinda lonelyu/featuredonceagain_ · Apr 19, 2023 · 1,087 points · 924 comments · text post
What r/help talks about
Across 696 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “account”, “android”, “ios”, “desktop” and “profile”. Other frequent themes are error, send, unable, comment, access and messages. Recurring phrases include “server error”, “send messages”, “age verification” and “mobile web”. By format, 83% are text posts, 16% are images and 1% are videos.
Popular post flairs: Access (167), Profile (162), Posting (151), Mobile/App (112), Desktop (44), Karma (34).
Activity and best time to post
r/help gets about 150 new posts a day. The public archive holds 700,120 posts and 1,838,121 comments in total, about 2.6 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (162 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (102). Posting peaks around 13:00 UTC and is lowest around 04:00 UTC.
Rules of r/help
The moderators of r/help list 7 rules. In short:
- Questions must be about Reddit itself.
- Keep it civil.
- Keep it helpful.
- Calling out or complaining about specific subreddits/users
- Appeals/Bans
- Do not Hijack Posts.
- Search the subreddit before posting
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/help 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 subscribers does r/help have?
r/help has 1,359,266 subscribers (Nov 9, 2026), which makes it the #786 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 10,141 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
How old is r/help?
r/help was created on Jan 25, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jun 20, 2009.
How active is r/help?
Very active: r/help gets about 150 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 700,120 posts and 1,838,121 comments. In a sample of 696 recent posts we counted 643 different authors.
When is r/help most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Tuesday and the quietest Wednesday, and most posts arrive around 13:00 UTC, with the fewest around 04:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/help about?
The community describes itself as: “Reddit Tech Support and more! Ask about Reddit's features and culture, news about recent changes, and updates about large scale issues affecting the site. Not looking for help with Reddit? /r/findareddit can help you fi…” Recent post titles often mention account, android, ios, desktop and profile. Most posts are text posts (83%).
Is r/help safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/help as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/help?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/help accepts text posts only, with galleries enabled. It has 7 posted rules, starting with: “Questions must be about Reddit itself.”; “Keep it civil.”; “Keep it helpful.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/help?
Communities with similar topics include r/NewToReddit (1.9M), r/technews (1.1M) and r/linux (1.9M).
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/help.