Reddit has crowned 26 new front-page subreddits—the forums all new redditors are subcribed to.
It’s a pretty big move. The number of default forums has now doubled, going from 25 to 50.
Default subreddits make up the majority of the social news site’s front-page content. Links submitted to these default communities typically result in significant traffic to a site.
So which lucky subreddits have suddenly gone mainstream?
A few Reddit favorites, like remix hub r/photoshopbattles, female-friendly r/twoxchromosomes, and lifehack depot r/lifeprotips, share space with the weird-news community r/nottheonion and confessional support group r/TIFU (Today I F**ked Up).
Gone from the front page is r/AdviceAnimals, home to some of the Internet’s favorite memes.
“It’s time to shake up the defaults again!” Reddit community manager Alex Angel (cupcake1713) said in a blog post. “In the past we’ve just swapped out one subreddit for another, but this time we’re going to try something different.”
So far, the additions have been received positively by at least one moderator from the existing default subreddits.
“I did not see this coming, like at all. I love some of those subreddits and I’m very interested to see how the new status affects them,” he said. “This is huge and ultimately I think it will be very good for reddit.”
Check out the full list of the 25 new default subreddits below:
- r/DIY: “All things related to doing, building, fixing things on your own. Do it yourself!”
- r/history
- r/art
- r/jokes
- r/mildlyinteresting
- r/oldschoolcool: “A pictorial and video celebration of history’s coolest kids, everything from beatniks to bikers, mods to rude boys, hippies to ravers. And everything in between.”
- r/photoshopbattles
- r/showerthoughts: “A subreddit for you to share all those thoughts, ideas, or philosophical questions that race through your head when in the shower.”
- r/twoxchromosomes
- r/creepy
- r/documentaries
- r/fitness
- r/futurology: “A subreddit devoted to the field of Future(s) Studies and evidence-based speculation about the development of humanity, technology, and civilization.”
- r/getmotivated
- r/lifeprotips
- r/nosleep: “The purpose of this subreddit is to share stories with and scare the crap out of each other.”
- r/personalfinace: “Get your financial house in order. Learn how to better manage your money (and debt) both short and long term.”
- r/space: “dedicated to the insightful and thoughtful discussion of outer space.”
- r/tifu: “a community for the dumbass in all of us.”
- r/upliftingnews: “Links to uplifting, inspirational, feel good news stories from around the globe.”
- r/writingprompts
- r/dataisbeautiful: “A place for visual representations of data: Graphs, charts, maps, etc.”
- r/food
- r/listentothis: “A place to discover music by new or overlooked artists.”
- r/nottheonion: “For true stories that are so mind-blowingly ridiculous, that you could have sworn it was an Onion story“
- r/philosophy
The addition of this subreddit comes 27 days after administrators removed r/technology from its list, following moderator drama.
On April 14, two redditors discovered that moderators—volunteers who can ban users from a forum, hide content, and set their own rules—were using a bot to censor headlines with words like “Bitcoin,” “Snowden,” and “Obama.” On April 17, administrators stripped r/technology of its default status.
The last time Reddit administrators added new defaults was in August after r/politics and r/atheism were removed over moderator drama. That new batch of subreddits included r/books, r/earthporn, r/explainlikeimfive, r/television, and r/GIFs. At the time, this was the most default subreddits added at one time.
Illustration by Jason Reed
