About r/help
In its own words:
Reddit Tech Support and more! Ask about Reddit's features and culture, news about recent changes, and updates about large scale issues affecting the site. Not looking for help with Reddit? /r/findareddit can help you find somewhere to post.
Community guide
r/help (#785, about 1.4 million subscribers) is oriented around: Reddit Tech Support and more! Ask about Reddit's features and culture, news about recent changes, and updates about large scale issues affecting the site. Not looking for help with Reddit? /r/findareddit can help you… Recent activity samples show 146 posts/day in recent samples (~83% text, ~16% image, ~1% video). Public rules we collected include: Questions must be about Reddit itself.; Keep it civil.; Keep it helpful.; Calling out or complaining about specific subreddits/users; Appeals/Bans.
What belongs here
Stay inside the room’s stated scope rather than adjacent off-topic dumps. Match posts to: Questions must be about Reddit itself.; Keep it civil.; Keep it helpful.; Calling out or complaining about specific subreddits/users.
How it differs from lookalikes
Prefer this room when your post matches its description and rules—not merely a larger sibling community. Skim the full public rule list once rather than assuming defaults from similar subs.
Practical pointers
Read the live sidebar/rules before posting; collected snapshots can lag. Common flairs in samples include: Access, Profile, Posting, Mobile/App. Volume is high—clear titles help.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Jan 25, 2008, which makes it 18 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 1,319 subscribers (+0.10%). It sits just behind r/artificial (#784) and ahead of r/Eminem (#786) in our ranking.
What sets r/help apart
Compared with other large communities, r/help leans heavily on text posts (83% of recent posts; the typical Top 100 subreddit sits at 35%). People mostly look and upvote here rather than comment — about 2.6 comments per post, against 13.1 for a typical large subreddit. For its size it is unusually busy: about 107.2 new posts a day per million members, more than 96% of the Top 100. It is also one of the faster-growing big communities: its 0.66% gain since Sep 19, 2026 beats 86% of the Top 100.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/help climbed from 1,349,125 to 1,358,033 subscribers (+8.9K, +0.66%). That is about 202 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/help talks about
Across 696 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “account”, “android”, “ios”, “desktop” and “profile”. Other frequent themes are error, send, unable, comment, access and messages. Recurring phrases include “server error”, “send messages”, “age verification” and “mobile web”. By format, 83% are text posts, 16% are images and 1% are videos.
Popular post flairs: Access (167), Profile (162), Posting (151), Mobile/App (112), Desktop (44), Karma (34).
Activity and best time to post
r/help gets about 150 new posts a day. The public archive holds 700,120 posts and 1,838,121 comments in total, about 2.6 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (162 posts) and the quietest was Wednesday (102). Posting peaks around 13:00 UTC and is lowest around 04:00 UTC.
Rules of r/help
The moderators of r/help list 7 rules. In short:
- Questions must be about Reddit itself.
- Keep it civil.
- Keep it helpful.
- Calling out or complaining about specific subreddits/users
- Appeals/Bans
- Do not Hijack Posts.
- Search the subreddit before posting
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/help 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/help have?
r/help has 1,358,033 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #785 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 8,908 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How old is r/help?
r/help was created on Jan 25, 2008, so it has been around for 18 years. The oldest post in the public archive is from Jun 20, 2009.
How active is r/help?
Very active: r/help gets about 150 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 700,120 posts and 1,838,121 comments. In a sample of 696 recent posts we counted 643 different authors.
When is r/help most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Tuesday and the quietest Wednesday, and most posts arrive around 13:00 UTC, with the fewest around 04:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/help about?
The community describes itself as: “Reddit Tech Support and more! Ask about Reddit's features and culture, news about recent changes, and updates about large scale issues affecting the site. Not looking for help with Reddit? /r/findareddit can help you fi…” Recent post titles often mention account, android, ios, desktop and profile. Most posts are text posts (83%).
Is r/help safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/help as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/help?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/help accepts text posts only, with galleries enabled. It has 7 posted rules, starting with: “Questions must be about Reddit itself.”; “Keep it civil.”; “Keep it helpful.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/help?
Communities with similar topics include r/NewToReddit (1.9M), r/BestofRedditorUpdates (4M), r/changemyview (4.2M), r/linux (1.9M) and r/AskReddit (60M).
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/help.