r/tea vs r/Coffee
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Tea beverage room vs coffee beverage room
r/tea’s public description focuses on beverages from camellia sinensis leaves (and, to a lesser extent, herbal infusions). r/Coffee’s directory text presents itself as a coffee discussion room.
Coffee is larger (about 2.5M, rank #447) than tea (about 1.1M, rank #970). Recent activity shows tea posting somewhat more often (~43 posts/day vs ~28). Both mix text with images and galleries; tea’s sample also includes video and flairs such as photo, question/help, recommendation and review.
Rule titles on both sides ban medical advice dumps, affiliate shilling and low-effort posts; tea also limits merchant deep-links and vendor grievance threads, while Coffee bans elitist nonsense, crowdfunding and product-hype spam. SubMouse already compares Coffee with espresso; this pair is tea versus coffee as beverage communities.
- Choose r/tea for tea leaves, brewing and culture under its merchant-link and health-claim limits.
- Choose r/Coffee for coffee gear, brewing and discussion under its coffee-focus and anti-shill rules.
- Both sit outside the current Top 100 cut; coffee-vs-espresso is a separate curated page.
Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.
r/tea
Tea
Tea! This subreddit is for discussion of beverages made from soaking camellia sinensis leaves (or twigs) in water, and, to a lesser extent, herbal infusions, yerba mate, and other tisanes.
- Members
- 1.1M
- 7-day growth
- +1.8K
- Posts/day
- 42.9
- Directory rank
- #968
- Created
- Dec 19, 2008
- Submissions
- Text or links
Sample mix: text posts 44%, images 25%, galleries 20%
Topics: Tea
Rule titles (short names we collected)
- Self-promotion
- Health benefits and concerns
- Be respectful of each other
- Low-effort posting
- Direct link to merchant
- Survey
- Drugs and Drug-Seeking
- Affiliate, referral link, link shorteners
- Sales and discounts
- Grievances regarding vendors or other users
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r/Coffee
Coffee
/r/Coffee is back - for now - and talking about itself, in addition to coffee.
- Members
- 2.5M
- 7-day growth
- +3.9K
- Posts/day
- 29.1
- Directory rank
- #447
- Created
- May 15, 2008
- Submissions
- Text or links
Sample mix: text posts 66%, images 16%, links 9%
Topics: Coffee
Rule titles (short names we collected)
- Coffee Focus
- Images & Video
- Low-Effort Post or Question
- Be Civil
- Elitist Nonsense
- Promotion
- Shilling / Sockpuppetry
- Affiliates & Referrals
- Product Release & Pre-Release Hype
- No Crowdfunding Projects
- No Surveys / Market Research
- Medical Advice
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Supported differences
| Aspect | r/tea | r/Coffee |
|---|
| Public focus (from each community’s public description) |
Tea! This subreddit is for discussion of beverages made from soaking camellia sinensis leaves (or twigs) in water, and, to a lesser extent, herbal infusions, yerba mate, and other tisanes. |
/r/Coffee is back - for now - and talking about itself, in addition to coffee. |
| Size r/Coffee is larger in our directory (about 2.3×). |
1.1M members |
2.5M members |
| Posting activity (our sample) |
42.9/day |
29.1/day |
| Common post types in our sample |
text posts 44%, images 25%, galleries 20% |
text posts 66%, images 16%, links 9% |
| Topic tags on SubMouse |
Tea |
Coffee |
| Selected rule titles (short names we collected) |
Self-promotion; Health benefits and concerns; Be respectful of each other; Low-effort posting; Direct link to merchant |
Coffee Focus; Images & Video; Low-Effort Post or Question; Be Civil; Elitist Nonsense |
Rules and posting patterns we can verify
tea short titles include: self-promotion; health benefits and concerns; be respectful; low-effort posting; direct link to merchant; survey; drugs and drug-seeking; affiliate/referral/link shorteners; sales and discounts; grievances regarding vendors or other users. Common flairs include photo, question/help, recommendation, discussion, video and review.
Coffee: coffee focus; images and video; low-effort post or question; be civil; elitist nonsense; promotion; shilling/sockpuppetry; affiliates and referrals; product release hype; no crowdfunding; no surveys/market research; medical advice.
Where this comparison comes from
Public descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short titles only. Related curated page: coffee-vs-espresso.
Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-09 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-11-02. Posts/day and post types are shown where recent activity is available. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order.