About r/Advice
In its own words:
This is a place where you can ask for advice on many subjects. Everybody has issues that they run into, and everyone needs advice every now and again. This is Reddit's very own solution-hub.
Community guide
r/Advice (#326, about 3.2 million) is Reddit’s general advice solution-hub for many subjects. Rules: be nice; posts must ask for advice; forbidden topics list; no discrimination; give OP benefit of the doubt; max twice/day; no reassurance/validation-seeking; no spam; no suicide/self-harm posts. Text (~1022.7 ppd).
Ask for advice, not validation
Posts need an advice ask—not pure reassurance-seeking. Forbidden topics are listed on-sub.
Rate limits and safety
At most two posts/day here; no suicide/self-harm posts—use appropriate resources instead.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Jun 26, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 11,364 subscribers (+0.36%). It sits just behind r/de (#325) and ahead of r/wow (#327) in our ranking.
What sets r/Advice apart
r/Advice is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 100% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 34% across the Top 100. r/Advice is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 6.9 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 14.0. For its size it is unusually busy: about 318.5 new posts a day per million members, more than 100% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 1.84% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 99% of the Top 100.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/Advice climbed from 3,152,450 to 3,210,568 subscribers (+58.1K, +1.84%). That is about 1,321 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/Advice talks about
Looking at the titles of 696 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “friend”, “help”, “relationship”, “boyfriend” and “feel”. Other frequent themes are friends, stop, life, job, girl and mom. Recurring phrases include “friend group”, “losing virginity”, “high school” and “mental health”. By format, 100% are text posts.
Activity and best time to post
r/Advice gets about 1,020 new posts a day. The public archive holds 3,426,692 posts and 23,519,003 comments in total, about 6.9 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Monday (1,114 posts) and the quietest was Saturday (878). Posting peaks around 21:00 UTC and is lowest around 08:00 UTC.
Rules of r/Advice
The moderators of r/Advice list 10 rules. In short:
- Be Nice.
- Posts must ask for advice.
- Forbidden Topics
- Follow the rules of Reddit.
- No discrimination.
- Give OP the benefit of the doubt.
- Only post twice per day in /r/advice
- No reassurance, validation, or affirmation seeking
- No Spam
- No suicide or self harm posts
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/Advice 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/Advice have?
r/Advice has 3,210,568 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #326 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 58,118 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/Advice?
r/Advice was created on Jun 26, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jul 9, 2009.
How active is r/Advice?
Very active: r/Advice gets about 1,020 new posts a day (average of the last week). Over its lifetime the archive counts 3,426,692 posts and 23,519,003 comments. In a sample of 696 recent posts we counted 654 different authors.
When is r/Advice most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Monday and the quietest Saturday, and most posts arrive around 21:00 UTC, with the fewest around 08:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/Advice about?
The community describes itself as: “This is a place where you can ask for advice on many subjects. Everybody has issues that they run into, and everyone needs advice every now and again. This is Reddit's very own solution-hub.” Recent post titles often mention friend, help, relationship, boyfriend and feel. Most posts are text posts (100%).
Is r/Advice safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/Advice as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/Advice?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/Advice accepts text posts only, with galleries enabled. It has 10 posted rules, starting with: “Be Nice.”; “Posts must ask for advice.”; “Forbidden Topics”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/Advice?
Communities with similar topics include r/dating_advice (4.9M), r/offmychest (3.5M), r/relationship_advice (15.9M), r/AdviceAnimals (9.9M) and r/facepalm (8.1M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). 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/Advice.