About r/CrappyDesign
In its own words:
MAY THE COMIC SANS AND LENS FLARES FLOW UNFILTERED
Community guide
r/CrappyDesign is a showcase for unintentionally bad real-world design—the community’s tongue-in-cheek title nods to Comic Sans and lens flares. Rank #129 (about 6.2 million subscribers). Rules insist it must be crappy design, and exclude clothing, software UIs, hate symbols, memes/macros, and sexually suggestive posts.
What counts
Photos of flawed physical/graphic design in the wild. Activity samples are mostly images.
Versus Design and assorted fail subs
r/Design is for design practice and critique. Software-UI fails belong elsewhere per this sub’s “no software designs” rule. Clothing fails are also excluded here.
Practical pointers
Descriptive titles; no reposts; be civil; no personal information.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Jan 18, 2011, which makes it 15 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 861 subscribers (+0.01%). It sits just behind r/Overwatch (#128) and ahead of r/woodworking (#130) in our ranking.
What sets r/CrappyDesign apart
Compared with other large communities, r/CrappyDesign leans heavily on images (94% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 17%). Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 2.0 new posts a day per million members, which puts it in the quietest fifth of the Top 100. A good post has less competition here.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/CrappyDesign went up from 6,197,585 to 6,203,247 subscribers (+5.7K, +0.09%). That is about 129 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/CrappyDesign talks about
Across 87 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 4), the words that come up most are “design”, “logo”, “toilet”, “company” and “marketplace”. Other frequent themes are light, middle, sign, europe, walking and bathroom. Recurring phrases include “ceiling design”, “meter park”, “nearest parking” and “russian marketplace”. By format, 94% are images and 6% are videos.
Popular post flairs: Removed: Not crappy design (10), Removed: Rule 6 (5), Removed: Retired type of crappy design (1), Removed: Frequent repost (1).
Activity and best time to post
r/CrappyDesign gets about 13 new posts a day. The public archive holds 761,579 posts and 6,784,106 comments in total, about 8.9 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Friday (16 posts) and the quietest was Monday (6). Posting peaks around 18:00 UTC and is lowest around 22:00 UTC.
Rules of r/CrappyDesign
The moderators of r/CrappyDesign list 8 rules. In short:
- IT MUST BE CRAPPY DESIGN
- NO REPOSTS/NO CLOTHING
- NO SOFTWARE DESIGNS
- NO HATE SYMBOLS
- NO SEXUALLY SUGGESTIVE POSTS
- TITLES SHOULD DESCRIBE AND REPRESENT THE CONTENT
- NO MEMES OR IMAGE MACROS
- BE CIVIL AND NO PERSONAL INFORMATION
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/CrappyDesign 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/CrappyDesign have?
r/CrappyDesign has 6,203,247 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #129 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 5,662 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/CrappyDesign?
r/CrappyDesign was created on Jan 18, 2011, so it has been around for 15 years.
How active is r/CrappyDesign?
Moderately: r/CrappyDesign gets about 13 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 761,579 posts and 6,784,106 comments. In a sample of 87 recent posts we counted 77 different authors.
When is r/CrappyDesign most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Friday and the quietest Monday, and most posts arrive around 18:00 UTC, with the fewest around 22:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/CrappyDesign about?
The community describes itself as: “MAY THE COMIC SANS AND LENS FLARES FLOW UNFILTERED” Recent post titles often mention design, logo, toilet, company and marketplace. Most posts are images (94%).
Is r/CrappyDesign safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/CrappyDesign as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/CrappyDesign?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/CrappyDesign accepts link and media posts (no plain text posts), with images and videos enabled. It has 8 posted rules, starting with: “IT MUST BE CRAPPY DESIGN”; “NO REPOSTS/NO CLOTHING”; “NO SOFTWARE DESIGNS”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/CrappyDesign?
Communities with similar topics include r/Design (4.5M), r/comicbooks (4.1M), r/comics (3.9M), r/Marvel (3.8M) and r/assholedesign (3.1M).
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/CrappyDesign.