About r/awesome
In its own words:
For everything that is awesome!
Community guide
r/awesome (#778, about 1.4 million subscribers) covers For everything that is awesome!. Recent activity samples show 1.0 posts/day in recent samples (~89% video, ~11% gallery). Public rules we collected include: No porn or gore content; No Screenshots; Don't post your own artwork; Moderator Discretion; No politics.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Match posts to: No porn or gore content; No Screenshots; Don't post your own artwork; Moderator Discretion.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; collected snapshots can lag. Common flairs in samples include: Video.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Mar 14, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 50 subscribers (+0.00%). It sits just behind r/TheDepthsBelow (#777) and ahead of r/notinteresting (#779) in our ranking.
What sets r/awesome apart
r/awesome is more of a browsing community than a debating one: 5.9 comments per post on average, well under the Top 100 median of 13.1. Relative to its huge audience, posting is calm — around 0.7 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/awesome grew from 1,370,584 to 1,370,884 subscribers (+300, +0.02%). That is about 7 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
Activity and best time to post
r/awesome gets about 1.0 new post a day. The public archive holds 70,654 posts and 420,125 comments in total, about 5.9 comments per post.
Rules of r/awesome
The moderators of r/awesome list 5 rules. In short:
- No porn or gore content
- No Screenshots
- Don't post your own artwork
- Moderator Discretion
- No politics
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/awesome 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 subscribers does r/awesome have?
r/awesome has 1,370,884 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #778 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 300 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/awesome?
r/awesome was created on Mar 14, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Sep 23, 2008.
How active is r/awesome?
Moderately: r/awesome gets about 1.0 new post a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 70,654 posts and 420,125 comments.
What is r/awesome about?
The community describes itself as: “For everything that is awesome!”
Is r/awesome safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/awesome as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/awesome?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/awesome accepts link and media posts (no plain text posts), with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 5 posted rules, starting with: “No porn or gore content”; “No Screenshots”; “Don't post your own artwork”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/awesome?
Communities with similar topics include r/progresspics (2.5M), r/natureismetal (2.4M), r/gifsthatkeepongiving (1.4M), r/NatureIsFuckingLit (17.3M) and r/Mommit (2.8M).
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/awesome.