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r/tea vs r/Coffee

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Tea beverage room vs coffee beverage room

r/tea’s public description focuses on beverages from camellia sinensis leaves (and, to a lesser extent, herbal infusions). r/Coffee’s directory text presents itself as a coffee discussion room.

In our directory, Coffee is larger (about 2.5M, rank #447) than tea (about 1.1M, rank #970). Activity samples show tea posting somewhat more often (~43 posts/day vs ~28). Both samples mix text with images and galleries; tea’s sample also includes video and flairs such as photo, question/help, recommendation and review.

Rule titles on both sides ban medical advice dumps, affiliate shilling and low-effort posts; tea also limits merchant deep-links and vendor grievance threads, while Coffee bans elitist nonsense, crowdfunding and product-hype spam. SubMouse already compares Coffee with espresso; this pair is tea versus coffee as beverage communities.

  • Choose r/tea for tea leaves, brewing and culture under its merchant-link and health-claim limits.
  • Choose r/Coffee for coffee gear, brewing and discussion under its coffee-focus and anti-shill rules.
  • Both sit outside the current Top 100 cut; coffee-vs-espresso is a separate curated page.

Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.

r/tea

Tea

Tea! This subreddit is for discussion of beverages made from soaking camellia sinensis leaves (or twigs) in water, and, to a lesser extent, herbal infusions, yerba mate, and other tisanes.

Members
1.1M
7-day growth
+2.5K
Posts/day
42.9
Directory rank
#970 (listed; no SubMouse page yet)
Created
Dec 19, 2008
Submissions
Text or links

Sample mix: text posts 44%, images 25%, galleries 20%

Topics: Tea

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • Self-promotion
  • Health benefits and concerns
  • Be respectful of each other
  • Low-effort posting
  • Direct link to merchant
  • Survey
  • Drugs and Drug-Seeking
  • Affiliate, referral link, link shorteners
  • Sales and discounts
  • Grievances regarding vendors or other users

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r/Coffee

Coffee

/r/Coffee is back - for now - and talking about itself, in addition to coffee.

Members
2.5M
7-day growth
+3.9K
Posts/day
28.2
Directory rank
#447
Created
May 15, 2008
Submissions
Text or links

Sample mix: text posts 60%, images 26%, galleries 8%

Topics: Coffee

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • Coffee Focus
  • Images & Video
  • Low-Effort Post or Question
  • Be Civil
  • Elitist Nonsense
  • Promotion
  • Shilling / Sockpuppetry
  • Affiliates & Referrals
  • Product Release & Pre-Release Hype
  • No Crowdfunding Projects
  • No Surveys / Market Research
  • Medical Advice

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About this community: r/Coffee (#447, about 2.5 million). /r/Coffee is back - for now - and talking about itself, in addition to coffee. Collected rules: Coffee Focus; Images & Video; Low-Effort Post or Question; Be Civil; Elitist Nonsense; Promotion; Shilling / Sockpuppetry; Affiliates & Referrals; Product Release & Pre-Release Hype; No Crowdfunding Projects Sample ~28.2 ppd.

Supported differences

Aspectr/tear/Coffee
Public focus (from each community’s public description) Tea! This subreddit is for discussion of beverages made from soaking camellia sinensis leaves (or twigs) in water, and, to a lesser extent, herbal infusions, yerba mate, and other tisanes. /r/Coffee is back - for now - and talking about itself, in addition to coffee.
Size
r/Coffee is larger in our directory (about 2.3×).
 1.1M members 2.5M members
Posting activity (our sample) 42.9/day 28.2/day
Common post types in our sample text posts 44%, images 25%, galleries 20% text posts 60%, images 26%, galleries 8%
Topic tags on SubMouse Tea Coffee
Selected rule titles (short names we collected) Self-promotion; Health benefits and concerns; Be respectful of each other; Low-effort posting; Direct link to merchant Coffee Focus; Images & Video; Low-Effort Post or Question; Be Civil; Elitist Nonsense

Rules and posting patterns we can verify

tea short titles include: self-promotion; health benefits and concerns; be respectful; low-effort posting; direct link to merchant; survey; drugs and drug-seeking; affiliate/referral/link shorteners; sales and discounts; grievances regarding vendors or other users. Our sample flairs include photo, question/help, recommendation, discussion, video and review.

Coffee: coffee focus; images and video; low-effort post or question; be civil; elitist nonsense; promotion; shilling/sockpuppetry; affiliates and referrals; product release hype; no crowdfunding; no surveys/market research; medical advice.

Where this comparison comes from

Public descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short rule titles and activity samples SubMouse collected. Short titles only. Related curated page: coffee-vs-espresso.

Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-02 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-10-26. Posts/day and post-type mixes appear when we have an activity sample. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order — communities outside the current Top 100 open in the info tool instead of a full community page.

Comparisons we prepared

Hand-written explanations for pairs where the public descriptions and rules support a real distinction: