r/woodworking vs r/DIY

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Woodworking craft vs general DIY

r/woodworking covers woodworking, carpentry, fine furniture, and hand and power tools—making anything from trees. r/DIY’s rule titles require all content to be DIY and push “Google First, Reddit Last.”

Both have SubMouse pages (woodworking about 6.2M, rank #130; DIY about 27.5M, rank #17). Samples are gallery-led for both (roughly 75 vs 61 posts per day).

Collected titles: woodworking requires posts to be about woodworking and original, routes wood ID to a megathread, and expects creators with shops or YouTube to engage beyond their own posts. DIY bans sales/promotion and product reviews, removes low-effort and off-topic posts, and has a title about letting professionals handle some jobs. Show a finished table or joinery question in woodworking; bring mixed-material home projects and repairs to DIY. (DIY vs HomeImprovement covers home-repair Q&A.)

r/woodworking: wood projects and tools; original content; wood ID in the megathread.
r/DIY: all DIY; no sales/promo or product reviews.
Both have full SubMouse community pages.

Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-06.

r/woodworking

Woodworking: all things made from trees.

Woodworking is your worldwide home for discussion of all things woodworking, carpentry, fine furniture, power tools, hand tools, and just about anything else about making - anything - from trees!

Members: 6.2M
7-day growth: +1.3K
Posts/day: 72.6
Directory rank: #130
Created: Aug 27, 2008
Submissions: Text or links

Sample mix: galleries 39%, text posts 31%, images 26%

Topics: Woodworking

Rule titles (short names we collected)

All posts must be about woodworking.
We don't want the following types of posts
Behave in this community
Posting YouTube video's / those with online shops must engage beyond their own posts
Safety Posts / Fractal burning
wood identification use the megathread
Original content only

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r/DIY

DIY

Members: 27.5M
7-day growth: +2.3K
Posts/day: 57.3
Directory rank: #17
Created: Jan 25, 2008
Submissions: Text or links

Sample mix: galleries 40%, images 29%, text posts 27%

Topics: DIY

Rule titles (short names we collected)

All content must be DIY
Basic Community Rules
𝗡𝗼 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 | 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 | 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴
Google First, Reddit Last | Product Search
Low effort posts
Content / Topics not suited for r/DIY
Rating & Reviewing Products or Brands
Sometimes you let the professionals handle it
No AI Content

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Supported differences

Aspect	r/woodworking	r/DIY
Public focus (from each community’s public description)	Woodworking is your worldwide home for discussion of all things woodworking, carpentry, fine furniture, power tools, hand tools, and just about anything else about making - anything - from trees!	DIY
Size r/DIY is larger in our directory (about 4.4×).	6.2M members	27.5M members
Posting activity (our sample)	72.6/day	57.3/day
Common post types in our sample	galleries 39%, text posts 31%, images 26%	galleries 40%, images 29%, text posts 27%
Topic tags on SubMouse	Woodworking	DIY
Selected rule titles (short names we collected)	All posts must be about woodworking.; We don't want the following types of posts; Behave in this community; Posting YouTube video's / those with online shops must engage beyond their own posts; Safety Posts / Fractal burning	All content must be DIY; Basic Community Rules; 𝗡𝗼 𝗦𝗮𝗹𝗲𝘀 \| 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 \| 𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴; Google First, Reddit Last \| Product Search; Low effort posts

Rules and tone we can verify

woodworking: all posts must be about woodworking; listed unwanted post types; behave; YouTube/shop posters must engage beyond their own posts; safety posts/fractal burning; wood ID in the megathread; original content only. DIY: all content must be DIY; basic community rules; no sales/promotions/advertising; Google first, Reddit last; low-effort posts; topics not suited for DIY; rating/reviewing products; sometimes let professionals handle it.

Where this comparison comes from

Public descriptions, member counts and related links from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short titles only.

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.