About r/place
In its own words:
There is an empty canvas. You may place a pixel upon it, but you must wait to place another. Individually you can create something. Together you can create something more.
Community guide
r/place is the community around Reddit’s collaborative canvas experiments: tiny individual pixels that only matter in aggregate. Rank #105 (about 7.6 million subscribers). The public description is the mechanic: you place a pixel, wait, repeat—alone you make a speck; together you make a map. Note: our recent activity sample shows effectively no ongoing posts-per-day, which fits a community that surges around events rather than daily threads.
What it is
Discussion and coordination around Place canvases and related creative collaboration, under simple civility and good-faith rules we collected.
Practical pointers
Do not expect a busy daily feed outside Place events. Be creative and civil; follow sitewide rules. If you want perpetual pixel art practice, specialised pixel-art communities are steadier day to day.
SubMouse Editorial
The community was created on Sep 30, 2011, which makes it 15 years old. Since Oct 26, 2026, it has gained 250 subscribers (+0.00%). It sits just behind r/AITAH (#104) and ahead of r/cars (#106) in our ranking.
What sets r/place apart
People mostly look and upvote here rather than comment — about 6.5 comments per post, against 14.0 for a typical large subreddit. Growth has more or less levelled off (0.02% since Sep 19, 2026), which is common for very mature communities.
Subscriber growth
Between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/place climbed from 7,564,176 to 7,565,537 subscribers (+1.4K, +0.02%). That is about 31 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (9 so far), so it gets longer every week.
All-time top posts
The highest-ranked posts in the history of r/place, from 2017 to 2023, ranked by Reddit.
- Full screenshot of r/place 2022u/Wawv · Apr 4, 2022 · 337,908 points · 12,639 comments · image
- Place has ended.u/ggAlex · Apr 5, 2022 · 281,879 points · 21,492 comments · text post
- The Complete r/Place Timelapseu/Acidtwist · Apr 6, 2022 · 238,965 points · 6,596 comments · video
- I'll miss you /r/placeu/getting_wooshed · Apr 4, 2022 · 217,405 points · 846 comments · image
- Claim your I was here ticket 🎫u/Barnard-Sanders · Jul 25, 2023 · image
- 1st day of r/Place in 1 minuteu/prosto_sanja · Apr 2, 2022 · 185,641 points · 7,088 comments · video
- we did it yall stop bullying us now 🥲Apr 3, 2022 · 173,965 points · 2,657 comments · image
- r/place Timelapse From 1-3 Day With Chill Music in The Background. You Are Welcome :)u/Pachimariblucz · Apr 4, 2022 · 172,864 points · 4,913 comments · video
- What an incredible ending.u/PG105 · Apr 4, 2022 · 170,950 points · 979 comments · video
- Art. Upvote this so that it will appear in Google images when you search for "art"u/OscarFrAllen · Apr 5, 2022 · 149,568 points · 1,027 comments · image
Activity and best time to post
The public archive holds 459,449 posts and 2,984,190 comments in total, about 6.5 comments per post.
Rules of r/place
The moderators of r/place list 4 rules. In short:
- Be Creative
- Be Civil
- Follow Sitewide Rules
- Participate in Good Faith
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/place 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/place have?
r/place has 7,565,537 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #105 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 1,361 members between Sep 19, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
When was r/place created?
r/place was created on Sep 30, 2011, so it has been around for 15 years.
Is r/place still active?
Over its lifetime the archive counts 459,449 posts and 2,984,190 comments.
What kind of posts are on r/place?
The community describes itself as: “There is an empty canvas. You may place a pixel upon it, but you must wait to place another. Individually you can create something. Together you can create something more.”
Is r/place SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/place as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/place?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/place accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 4 posted rules, starting with: “Be Creative”; “Be Civil”; “Follow Sitewide Rules”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/place?
Communities with similar topics include r/HolUp (3.5M), r/WritingPrompts (18.9M), r/todayilearned (41.7M), r/somethingimade (3.1M) and r/interesting (2.2M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 2, 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/place.