How to See Number of Members in a Subreddit
If you've gone looking for a subreddit's member count and couldn't find it, you're not missing a setting. Reddit replaced it with two activity numbers, and the old total now sits where only moderators can see it.
How to see number of members in a subreddit has a new answer since September 2025: mostly, you can't. Reddit removed the public member count from community pages and replaced it with weekly visitors and weekly contributions. Only the community's moderators still see the member total, in Mod Insights, and Reddit plans to remove it there too.
What you see instead, as of September 2026, is how many different people visited the community in a typical recent week and how many posts and comments they added. Those numbers describe how active a community is now. The old member count described how many people had ever clicked Join, including accounts that left Reddit years ago.
Reddit's reasoning, from its own help center, is that the member count reflected a community's age more than its activity. A subreddit created a decade ago could show millions of members while only a small fraction still visited, and a newer, busier community could look smaller than it really was. Weekly visitors counts unique users who visited in the past seven days, averaged over a rolling 28-day window. Weekly contributions counts posts and comments added in the same period that weren't removed.
The change matters most to anyone who used the member count as a quick quality check. A large number used to signal an established community. Now the visible numbers signal something else: a community that is visited and talked in, this month. A small subreddit with a loyal group of daily posters can show strong contributions against a modest visitor count, and a giant default community can show enormous visitor numbers with relatively few contributions per visitor.
Neither figure, and not the old count either, tells anyone who the members are. Reddit has never shown a public list of a subreddit's members, and it doesn't give moderators one either. The total still exists behind the scenes, and it's what Reddit subscribers add to, but visitors to a subreddit page no longer see it.
How to see subreddit members now
As of September 2026, here is where each community number lives:
- Weekly visitors and weekly contributions: on the community's page, near its name or in the About section, visible to anyone.
- Member count: visible only to the community's moderators, in Mod Insights. Reddit has said it will remove it from there in the future as it shifts to activity metrics.
- Your own communities: the list of subreddits you've joined is under Communities in the app menu, or on your profile's joined list on the website.
Can you see members of a subreddit?
No, not as a list. Reddit doesn't show which accounts have joined a community to visitors, to members or to moderators. Moderators see lists of approved users, banned users and other moderators, which they manage themselves, but not the full set of people who joined. You can see who posts and comments, since that activity is public, and that's the closest anyone gets.
How to judge a subreddit's size before posting
Use the two new numbers together. Weekly visitors tells you how many people could see your post. Weekly contributions tells you how crowded the community is: in a subreddit with many contributions per visitor, a new post competes with a lot of others and drops out of New quickly; in a quieter one it stays visible longer. Then read the rules in the sidebar and look at the scores on recent posts, which show what this particular audience rewards. A community with modest visitors and engaged commenters often does more for a post than a huge one where it's buried within minutes.
What do weekly visitors and contributions mean?
Weekly visitors is a count of unique people. Each person who visited the community at least once in a seven-day window counts once, however many times they came back, and Reddit smooths the figure by averaging it over the last 28 days. So a single viral post that brings a crowd for a day raises the number only partly, and a community that's busy every day holds a steady figure.
Weekly contributions is a count of activity: posts and comments added over the same period, excluding those removed by moderators or by Reddit. Divide contributions by visitors and you get a rough sense of how participatory a community is. Communities built around discussion tend to sit high on that ratio; communities built around browsing images or news sit low.
Why Reddit made the change
Reddit said many subscribers don't post or visit regularly, so activity is the better picture of a community's health. It also uses weekly visitors elsewhere: Reddit announced that the figure would become the basis for limits on how many large communities a single person can moderate. That makes weekly visitors, not members, the number Reddit itself now treats as the size of a community.
What subreddit has the most members?
By the old measure, the largest communities by subscribers were long-running default subreddits such as r/funny and r/AskReddit, each with tens of millions of members according to trackers that recorded Reddit's public counts before they were removed. Since September 2025, those totals are no longer shown publicly, so any current ranking by members relies on figures captured before the change or on estimates.
Ranked by weekly visitors, the order can differ, because the metric rewards communities people visit now rather than communities people joined long ago. That's the point of the change, and it's why a list of the biggest subreddits by members is increasingly a list of the oldest.
How many subreddits are there?
Reddit doesn't publish a live total. Reddit has described itself as home to more than 100,000 active communities, and the total number of subreddits ever created is far higher, since many are abandoned, private or banned. Active is the word to notice: the same logic behind weekly visitors applies to the whole site. A subreddit that exists but nobody visits doesn't count as active.
What this means if you run a community
For a moderator, the member count still exists in Mod Insights for now, but it no longer does public work. Visitors judging whether your community is worth joining now read weekly visitors and contributions, and those grow only when people come back and talk.
That changes what the member total is useful for. Reddit subscribers add to a community's member total, or to a profile's followers, depending on the link. Be clear-eyed about where that shows now: on a subreddit page, visitors no longer see the member count at all, and added members don't visit or post, so they don't move weekly visitors or contributions. Reddit's content policy also names subscriber fraud, alongside vote manipulation, as content manipulation. Reddit self-promotion rules sets out that sitewide rule.
The numbers visitors do see are driven by posts people want to read and reply to. On a single post, the score is the public signal, and Reddit upvotes are the service that concerns it, under the same policy. Getting regular contributors is slower and more reliable: seed discussions, answer every early comment, pin a weekly thread. How to get karma on Reddit covers the habits that make posts land, which are the same habits that make a community active. Every Reddit guide and service on this site is on the Reddit hub.
Questions people ask about subreddit member counts
Why can't I see how many members a subreddit has?
Reddit removed the public member count from community pages starting in September 2025. Communities now show weekly visitors and weekly contributions. Moderators can still see the member count in Mod Insights for now.
What does weekly visitors mean on Reddit?
The number of unique people who visited a community in the past seven days, averaged over a rolling 28-day window. Each person counts once per week however often they visit.
What are weekly contributions on Reddit?
The number of posts and comments added to a community over the same period, not counting those that were removed.
Can you see who is a member of a subreddit?
No. Reddit doesn't show a list of a community's members to visitors, members or moderators. Only public activity, posts and comments, shows who takes part.
Which subreddit has the most members?
Before counts were hidden, trackers listed long-running communities such as r/funny and r/AskReddit at the top, each with tens of millions of members. Public member totals are no longer shown.
How many subreddits are there?
Reddit doesn't publish a live total. It has described more than 100,000 active communities, and many more subreddits exist that are inactive, private or banned.
Keep reading
- Reddit subscribers — Members on a subreddit or followers on a profile are what Reddit subscribers add; since September 2025 visitors no longer see a subreddit's member total.
- Reddit self-promotion rules — The sitewide policy on manipulation, including subscriber fraud.
- What is Reddit karma — The other Reddit number people misread, and what it actually unlocks.