About r/WeWantPlates
Community guide
r/WeWantPlates (#1000, about 1.1 million) is a photo room for restaurant servings that skipped a normal plate. Posts include tacos and ravioli hung on a clothesline, pizza on a snowboard, curry on a chopping board, a sandwich that was not brought on a plate, a Bloody Mary in a fry basket, and a cocktail poured into a hollow stone.
What belongs
Mostly images and galleries, with some video (about 1.6 posts a day). All-time titles include food served in a guest’s hand, bread “inside roadkill,” fries sealed in a bowl so they steam, syrup running down an arm, cheese foam spooned onto the back of a hand, a bill carried out on a typewriter, and dessert shown on an iPad picture of a plate. Public rule titles are “Incivility,” “Direct links only — give credit where due,” “Homemade,” and “Keep it exceptional and cringy.” Read the live Reddit sidebar before posting; those titles are not the full rules.
Versus ordinary food photos
Ordinary restaurant or food-photo communities collect whatever was served. The titles here keep coming back to the same gripe: the dish arrived on a clothesline, a snowboard, a chopping board, a bone, a fry basket, a stone, or someone’s hand instead of a plate.
Practical pointers
If you post, the rule titles ask for a direct link with credit and for examples that are exceptional and cringy rather than everyday plating. Check the live rules for how “Homemade” and civility are enforced.
It sits just behind r/HaircareScience (#999) in our ranking.
What sets r/WeWantPlates apart
Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 1.5 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. Growth has more or less levelled off (0.00% since Oct 29, 2026), which is common for very mature communities.
Subscriber growth
Between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/WeWantPlates stayed flat from 1,057,252 to 1,057,252 subscribers. The chart shows 2 weekly subscriber counts.
Top posts on r/WeWantPlates this week
What the community upvoted most over the last seven days, as ranked by Reddit (collected Nov 8, 2026).
- New spot in town serves tacos on a clotheslineu/thatblondeperson · Nov 2 · image
- Saw this on TikTok…u/akaynaveed · Nov 7 · image
- no words but it does look prettyu/ibuiltyouarosegarden · Nov 3 · gallery
- No plates to be seenu/No_Scratch3673 · Nov 1 · gallery
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/WeWantPlates, from 2017 to 2021, ranked by Reddit.
- Most expensive restaurant I've ever been. Chef literally made the starter in our hand.u/Zero_Boss · Oct 3, 2019 · 71,301 points · 3,256 comments · image
- First patio since COVID and this is what I get. I told the owner I was going to post on this sub and he said he would bring me the sandwich on a plate next time if this post blows up.u/entrepreneurialCan · Mar 23, 2021 · image
- My bread served inside roadkill.u/urdsrevenge · Mar 30, 2018 · image
- “Slop Table for 20 please”u/craftycrumbs · Nov 3, 2019 · 40,520 points · 3,230 comments · video
- Finally getting it rightu/ichabodcrane · Dec 31, 2018 · 33,735 points · 237 comments · image
- "I Put Fries in an Enclosed Bowl So They Steam and Get Soggy" - Some Prick CookJan 23, 2018 · 31,260 points · 788 comments · image
- The syrup is already going down his arm... 😫u/ZebraBoat · Nov 2, 2019 · 34,447 points · 833 comments · image
- My boyfriend was just served a Bloody Mary in a fry basketOct 4, 2018 · 29,639 points · 1,174 comments · image
- We have been robbed.u/Obulgaryan · Jun 27, 2018 · 29,933 points · 552 comments · image
- My wife's cocktail was served in a hollow stone and had to be drunk through the hole, without a strawu/MrMagicMoves · Nov 6, 2017 · 23,362 points · 727 comments · image
Activity and best time to post
r/WeWantPlates gets about 1.6 new posts a day. The public archive holds 50,462 posts and 944,468 comments in total, about 18.7 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Saturday (5 posts) and the quietest was Friday (0).
Rules of r/WeWantPlates
The moderators of r/WeWantPlates list 4 rules. In short:
- Incivility
- Direct links only - give credit where due.
- Homemade
- Keep it exceptional and cringy
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/WeWantPlates 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 big is r/WeWantPlates?
r/WeWantPlates has 1,057,252 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #1000 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking.
Is r/WeWantPlates still active?
Yes. r/WeWantPlates gets about 1.6 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 50,462 posts and 944,468 comments.
What is the best time to post in r/WeWantPlates?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Saturday and the quietest Friday. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/WeWantPlates?
r/WeWantPlates is a large Reddit community. Recent post titles often mention table, wonder and place.
Is r/WeWantPlates SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/WeWantPlates as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/WeWantPlates?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/WeWantPlates accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos, galleries and polls enabled. It has 4 posted rules, starting with: “Incivility”; “Direct links only - give credit where due.”; “Homemade”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 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/WeWantPlates.