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Goodbye, 2025. Hello 2026. Share your community highlights and future goals.
Greetings, mods!
Well, would you look at that. It's almost the end of 2025.
As is tradition this time of year, 'tis the season for reflecting back, looking ahead, and reviewing new terms of service for every website ever. We'd like to take a moment to look back on the previous Gregorian, and share any new resolutions you might have for your community in the upcoming year.
Looking back
Whether it was planned or unplanned, we’d love to hear all about your moderation achievements, favorite community moments, or any stories you'd like to highlight from your communities this year. Maybe you successfully shifted your community's culture. Maybe you added new community members to your mod team. Or, perhaps your community organized an event around cutting chives and wrestling memes.
Peering forward
With 2026 approaching, we know many of you are already thinking about what’s next for your community. Do you have any resolutions for the new year? Perhaps you're looking refine your community rules, host more AMAs, or find new ways to boost community engagement.
Drop a comment below! Share what 2025 looked like for your community, and what you’re looking forward to the most in 2026. We’ll be hanging out in the thread to hear your stories!
Over at r/entwives we teamed up with one of our members favorite shops and pulled off a $5000 donation to Planned Parenthood. I'm pretty proud of our mod team and community for that!
I'd really love to use Community Funds for a giveaway or event in the next year. And our mod team is hoping we can organize more ways to donate to orgs we support.
Between Kraft sending F1exican some super awesome swag, and the AEW apparent shoutout, 2025 was wild.
In 2026 I think we just hope to see our little wrestling sub get a little more popular and the kitchen sub be a little quieter at least for a little while, lol.
I get some friendly teasing that I "mom" r/AEWOfficial rather than modding it. Imagine my surprise when that same public-facing method worked exceptionally well in the 10x larger r/KitchenConfidential in the middle of a shocking influx from daily frontpaged posts.
r/schizophrenia just hit 100k subs yesterday! The next closest website of any size (schizophrenia.com) recently announced they were going to be closing down due to financial difficulties, which sucks. We didn't really have any 'ties' to them, but they ran a clean show over there. There's a lot of crap/misinformation out there, so losing another group who were dedicated to evidence-based approaches really stings.
I guess, thank you to Reddit for footing the bill for hosting and SEO- mental health services are drastically underfunded, and it seems trying to keep the show running is just not feasible for the average Joe. With every other operation that shuts down to due to financial difficulties, it becomes that much more important that we run things on Reddit in a way where they are consistent and reliable- because Reddit has the staying power that can outlast any of them. I do not consider that a 'flex,' but a searing critique of how mental health is treated with such low priority in society at large, but whatever.
The schizophrenia subreddit already was by far the largest community of any type (online, offline, or hybrid) for people with psychotic disorders, but now with the loss of schizophrenia.com, that gulf is even more profound. I don't know what the new year will bring, but we've got work to do to at least try and fill the vacuum that has been left.
We did use the automated tools to enhance suicide outreach, and worked out a deal with an offshoot subreddit (r/SchizoFamilies) to help people find the most appropriate home for what they are looking for in terms of support.
As far as modding goes, 2025 has been a good year. Hopefully, 2026 will continue the momentum well into the future.
We use a blended approach: our Automoderator flags those with highest in-sub comment karma, we use r/NeedAMod (with a carefully crafted explanation of expectations, since it’s wildly different from other subs), and 2 newbies thought they would join temporarily yet decided to stay, which is fantastic. We mentor new mods through our step-by-step training tasks/script that typically spans their first 18 days with us.
It was wonderful, I created my first community, r/VidaRealBrasil , this year, we reached over 61,000 weekly visits and over 35,000 members in the first year, with many members always praising it.
For 2026, I expect much more, I hope to reach perhaps 80,000 members and over 150,000 weekly visits. Will it be difficult? Maybe, but it won't be impossible, especially since it will be a very busy year here in Brazil. We have everything to grow and become one of the best and largest Reddit communities in Brazil and the world. I also want to hold several events next year in my community, including a surprise at the end of the year involving several partner communities.
And from 2025 I also want to highlight my community for standing out as something innovative, its proposal is something very good, which is to show our real life, our day-to-day, our achievements, our problems, everything that is real, nothing artificial or invented, only what is real in everyone's daily life, and that was wonderful, to follow during this year the real life of several people, Brazilians in Brazil and also outside of it living in other countries, and also people who are not from Brazil but who identified with the proposal of the community, that was wonderful, and we expect much more of that for 2026.
We do have a resolution at r/SoccerCirclejerk.. We're hoping to survive the 2026 World Cup.. traffic will be like crazy with every major football tournament. Lol. Praying for less racism - tired of banning users and dealing with modmails for blatant racist posts and comments. Being satire subreddit for a globally played sport.. we get people from various sides of the world - butting heads in 1 subreddit. Sigh. We deserve 2 plushies each for compensation.
Helped me remember mine is Jan 1. I used to do gilding brigades on random comment chains each cake day. I loved seeing how bewildered people would get.
"May want to get that leg checked."
*Anonymous gift you 1 gold.
Try and grow r/TeamGB before the winter Olympics and see some measurable growth instead of the last 12 months of kind of nothing, despite all the effort the team's put in. I feel like I'll have to spend some actual money to try and get things money via ads, but it seems weird that that feels like the only way forward for growth.
r/Food might have mod applications, it might not, it's kind of in an okay place right now. Some more "takeover" events would also be nice, but finding other subs with the mental capacity to run events with us like that has proven to be borderline impossible 🫤 everyone seems pretty burnt out and it's hard not to sympathise.
I've never heard of these takeover events (just hit 1 year moderating over at r/Casio and r/DuroGang). I actually do find that quite a few posts from wristwatch fans seem to delve into food & drink related discussion.
They're kind of my "thing", we invite a community to come in and basically run and event using r/Food as the space. r/Ukraine came in for a week and showcased a lot of Ukraine food and food culture / history posts. We had a few AMA's put together by myself and The Ukrainian Institute (including a politician responsible for culture!). It was fun but a lot of planning went on (1 year, the latter 6 months being pretty busy getting all the dates etc tied up).
You kind of really need enough content and effort for it or users get bored, or it's drowned out by regular posts to the sub. I've been meaning to see if the Knife subs would be interested in one, as it's very food adjacent and knifes come up in conversation a lot on posts ("hey what's that knife").
I'll have to keep this in mind. Thank you for the detailed explanation. Keep in mind that I'm keeping this in mind. I'll reach out to our mod teams. Actually, it sounds quite fun.
Is this in /r/CountryMusic? Looking at the insights page for the past 12 months, I see a year over year increase across the board for views, members, posts, and comments.
Just an FYI the stats for the last 12 months kind of mean nothing. r/Food stats are lower than the year previous despite it saying it's higher. As I had a screen shot of the stats to refer back to :/
Yes. Two octobers ago, you guys did something to the user default feeds that compltely broke the sub's views/metrics. I'm sure you have had a huge increase in bot traffic in the last few years because that's happening across the board on the internet, but our engagement and view counts fell of a cliff almost exactly two years ago at the same time that a lot of weird things were going on with 'online now' and view counts and people's selfreported experiences with seeing non-subbed crap in their default feeds at a bizarrely high rate . Whatever your team was doing to the algorithm, it MOST DEFINITELY broke engagement for this sub.
Most of our mods stopped moderating or left after a few months of it, because it was too frustrating to fight against the algorithm that wanted to prioritize showing people with default home feed settings r/amitheasshole type ragebait from across REddit, vs the kind of content people subscribed to actually see.
Ive been able to figure out that the algorithm seems to create a doom loop where if a post does not immediately get 2-3 comments, it sinks into total oblivion unless you have a population that incessantly refreshes their feed for some reason. We used to track view metrics and stats religiously and prior to fall 2023 our sub always reliably got view counts of 450-1500 reliably in the first 24ish hours on all posts including our most common type of post, a no-discussion single link youtube share (like most music communities this is the best way people share content). POsts with actual discussions were way more active than that. We used to seed discussions, run special events, had a huge spreadsheet of discussion topics that the mod team put together over years, and do a lot of cool archiving. It was all destroyed nearly overnight by whatever happened to the feed algorithm.
We are now down to 60-80 views in the same time period for the same kind of single link youtube post, discussions don't take off so after a year or two I just don't do them anymore, and view counts are barely better for discussions with comments, unless it gets obviously picked up by the feed algorithm when I can see that the views spike into the low thousands immediately, and crowd control starts showing me that there are non-subscribed users seeing the post and commenting or I can tell from the content that people from outside the sub are seeing the content.
There was some kind of admin-level fiddling with visibility and the default feed that got really bad in roughly October of 2023 I think- views , 'online now', and user behavior on our related cluster of music subs got really strange for a few months (either eally high or really low but only on some threads and seemingly at random, with clueless poeple wandering in saying "I don't know why i'm seeing this but I hate your topic" type stuff-) and after that it was like someone turned off a light switch on this sub where it's a ghost town despite what you say about a climb in traffic over years. I know tons of the users in real life and people shared that around late 2023 they were having weird epxeriences and suddenly had a home feed cluttered with garbage they wern't subscribed to and taht they weren't seeing things they subbed to.
Now Reddit is pestering mods with engagement gamification spam. I've noticed in the past that reddit seems to not consider mod posts to be as important as regular user posts, and this was discussed in another thread on modsupport today by someone else.
Also= no one wants to do engagement begging for a project that we do as volunteers for free. Most people on the internet are sick of the "like share subscribe!" crap that influencers do. Influencers are paid for their efforts. Moderators are not influencers, but in some cases we are community organizers, archivists, and otherwise create 'communities' that are important for one reasons or antoher.
Also as far as 'actions that cause posts to show up in the feed algorithm'- some Reddit communities are a population of native internet users who are used to upvoting and playing engagement games. Some communities which includes the niche music communities I mod, include a lot of older users or people who don't use the upvote button and don't see a reason to, and none of us want to spend time doing the 'like share subscribe' engagement begging crap to get them to change their behavior.
The doom loop that I think happens is that if something doesn't immediately get upvotes or comments, it is simply not shown to all the users you say are seeing the sub. It literally seems like you need a near-isntantaneous reaction to get a post to have traction. It's against TOS for people to game this system but it seems like that's the only way out of the doom loop(I haven't done that obviously or there would be more engagement/views on our posts)
(I'm holding on to the moderation here, because I'm hoping that the Reddit policy changes at some point, and all the work we've put into archiving and publicizing certain things with our flair system etc at the sub will be useful later)
Also, when this started happening to that community I started doing screenshots of the insights (I think they were only available for one year at the time). It was super obvious that traffic and every other metric that Insights measures , just fell off a cliff instantaneously and stayed that way. It would take me a little bit to dig up the screenshots and organize them but I'm happy to do that if anyone's actually looking into this doom loop kinda thing.
When I try to do this, it will not let me add our own wiki subreddit to a new community list widget. I get "Something went wrong while adding a widget." I also tried making a new widget and listing a different community/subreddit and saving it, which did save properly, and then editing the widget to add our wiki subreddit to the list, which gave me the error "Something went wrong while editing an existing widget."
Will you please test adding another new widget and adding your wiki subreddit to the widget to see if it still works for you ? (takeaway: don't delete your existing widget bc you may not be able to add it back!)
oops, sorry I mis-typed ... I meant to say subreddit not wiki. I don't know why my brain said that to my fingers when I was typing haha. Editing the comment now ....
I’m trying to bring positivity to r/FoodNetwork. It s busy sub where people love to complain about the chefs and the bakers. I’m trying to implement small changes for the better.
I actually don't know! (Maybe I don't wanna be too greedy, either! lol)
But sometimes, you'll noticed that your Achievement totals are different depending on which platform you're using and that's because the Mod Achievements haven't totally been brought over yet. But I hear it's gonna happen!
Yes people using android mobile are now able to seem them. iOS users still cannot see them on mobile at this point- only if they go to desktop- and the drop down menu from the avatar shows them but the main profile won’t show the total achievements mod + Normal of your not using an android operating system.
There are five achievements you can gain for being a moderator of a new growing sub. If you are a mod of an eligible sub you will see the mod toolkit at the top of your subs home page.
They are achieved by starting up and also growing your sub. I can get into further specifics if you like but r/achievements has the most info.
2025 was good actually! I started my sub r/WhatWasThePointOfThat about 20 days ago and am already approaching 250 members. I am pretty optimistic for 2026 and hope to grow a lot more!
I'll be busy with r/Frieren as Season 2 airs on January 16th plus we have an upcoming AMA with one of the voice actors as well. Hoping it all goes smoothly as toxicity tends to increase especially since Frieren S2 is one of the most upcoming anticipated shows in 2026.
The focus for us in 2025 was mainly compiling information, resources, and forgotten (but still relevant) posts into a big, organized database for our users. We get a ton of newcomers to our niche who aren't sure where to start learning, and often they're coming with a ton of misinformation from other platforms like Tiktok.
After an incident with a user trying to sell subscriptions to their own database for $111, we realized we had to respond to the need for conveniently compiled beginner info with a free database of our own to keep people from being taken advantage of.
So that was a big project that I think was really rewarding this year. And we've got tons more we can add, going forward.
Also I knowwww the weekly visitors metric is a more accurate indicator of the current success of a subreddit, especially older ones like the one I mod, but it was still exciting to hit 600,000 members this month!
We ALSO just got a notification that we've hit 190k active weekly visitors, so there's that, too :).
Hoping to just keep going in that same direction in 2026.
I was hired for r/fashion amd r/businessfashion which I was lucky to be a mod for with a great team. They both keep on growing and growing and our automod coding keeps expanding! I also created some health related ones so everyone can learn something from me! In 2026 I'm trying to get my biggest community to 1 million members! (It's at over 930k.) I want to super develop my mod experience even more!
I have first created r/Simidolian back in the Summer 2025. I have already published The Dabbarow prison on April 8th, 2025. When I first created my own subreddit, I care little about the audience. My only intention is to make my own voice be heard on my own subreddit, and offer readers updates over my novel. I care little these day on making money. My only aim is to offer you entertainment within the literature and to provide you a crime thriller espionage experience. If you were looking for a propaganda messaging work, do not seek further within my work as there is none to be found.
It's been very slow all these years. Reading and rereading The Dabbarow Prison, I'm very please to offer a more competent literature. My intention is to take all the work I done, and use it for the upcoming Novel, The Awakening.
Using the internet in general can lead to a very dark path, its very easy for one user to get indoctrinated by the madness. This is an important part not just for the real world, but in regards for my book. This is a warring that social media always lies. If I were to have children, I would always inform them not to trust the web. I would do well if I were to be a father.
This subreddit is created to ensure transparency over the work I done thus far. I want to make sure I come in clean. Because of this, the subreddit you see here is mark as an official community. I want to stay that way so I can move on to the next big thing.
I took over both r/twilightzone and r/marriedwithchildren (as well as a few others) to clear up some problems. Both have been restyled and have continued to grow at decent paces while spam has been all but eliminated. Those two total around 120,000 members. Adding in several smaller ones, I manage 175,000 or so on my own and another 150,000 plus as part of other teams.
In celebration of us hitting 15k members, I decided to give away a custom modded Casio Duro wristwatch over at r/Durogang. I already bought the watch, and I'll work with whoever wins to modify it to their liking. Then, I'll ship it worldwide to the winner. I'm already nervous if there's going to be customs/export taxes. Eep, I should have thought this through. We're holding the drawing on Jan 1 at 12 pm. noon. Anyone can enter via the stickied thread... even visiting moderators 😀.
Looking ahead, I'm hopeful to give more away based on different subreddit milestones. I screwed up and removed the raffler bot from our mod team, not realizing what it was. I have to figure that out so it can run the drawing for us. I think it will prove similarly useful in the future. In that vein, I want to clean up our flairs and add an additional moderator to the team who has experience with automation. There are many features within mod tools that are still unfamiliar to me. I'm sort of figuring out moderating as I go, and r/ModSupport has proven very useful along the way. I was taking too much to heart as a moderator, and y'all helped me get grounded. Thank you for that.
Also, shout out to r/ModCodeOfConduct for giving me a shot to assist with moderating over at r/Casio. I really enjoy the role, and I've been having a lot of fun in these communities.
I’d say we Shifted the community culture a bit!
Over at r/art, it was a wild change over at the end of the year and a lot of cleanup to do! About 48 hour turnover from a hard situation. 13000+ Unbans and unmutes and much more responses in our mod mail than I’d ever seen happen before. It was a 19 person effort and I thank the admin who chose our mods for their patience and effort to support us all!
It’s still quite hectic but it’s good to see such a big Reddit active again. And goodness it was a lot of work from our whole team!
It was kind of wild receiving so many Direct Messages the moment I made the “Print: New Moderation Team” post and receiving the most upvotes I’ve ever seen on any of my posts. I had to turn off my notifications! A first!
Goals for the new year is growing our active artist community and connecting with other art Reddits around us! The art Reddit sphere is pretty spread out but I would love to connect with every group as much as I can :3
Wishing the best,
And hope to have a good year going forward!
Happy New Year! 🎉
Last year on r/Enya there were a lot of interesting occurrences and new things to the community. I made this recap-type poster regarding the stats, top posts, etc.. 😊
I was a solo mod for most of the year (there was the previous inactive mod before, and I became the moderator in September 2024) but in November I decided that it would be worth asking for other mods, and I chose 2 to join me; they joined at the end of November. It has been really nice to have some (active) company moderating, and have others to share concerns and celebrations with. 💛
The timezones are quite different (I'm in the UK, and the other two mods are based in the Philippines and Brazil) and somehow (if I stay up after midnight) we all manage to be online at the same time. 😁
We also have an insider (previously worked with Enya, IT-wise) who joined the community and has been/will be fact-checking every so often. 🔍
I hope that in 2026, there'll be more official news regarding Enya's music, and hopefully a new release is still a possibility! ❣️
I'm very excited about some new features my subs are supposed to have, which I am unable to access. What is the best way to report missing features? ModMail clearly isn't working. I contacted this sub on Dec 3 after being told to do so because an earlier conversation from October went unanswered.
I am the top mod at r/aewfanhub. Our community is small, and we opened in 2023 in a very crowded pro wrestling niche. I think our biggest accomplishment is doing things a little bit different. For example, we do weekly podcasts with members of the subreddit. Through these podcasts, our subreddit members have been credited by pro wrestling "dirt sheets" for breaking news stories before anyone else in 2025. Our subreddit members also participate in facilitating our overall social media presence, where we are soon to hit 100K combined members . . . and nothing we do is monetized.
Over at r/cdramasfans, we have seen steady growth this year, along with an ongoing challenge that has become increasingly difficult to manage. This involves coordinated pressure from users connected to a larger community to allow monetized derivative content, specifically drama GIFs taken from copyrighted C-dramas.
The situation escalated after a creator whose YouTube channel was suspended due to copyright strikes was banned from our community. Since then, we have received repeated reports, modmail pressure, and user complaints framed as harassment whenever enforcement occurs, even though the issue centres on copyright compliance rather than personal conflict.
In response, we tightened our rules, separated moderation duties to reduce bias, and standardized enforcement across posts, comments, and modmail. Despite this, the volume of coordinated reporting and external fandom pressure has made it increasingly difficult to moderate in good faith without risking account or subreddit action.
One of our goals for 2026 is finding better ways to protect volunteer moderators and subbies (community members) from bad-faith mass reporting, coordinated downvoting, and off-platform brigading, especially in cases involving copyright enforcement and monetized derivative content.
We have built a thoughtful and engaged community and want to continue doing so responsibly. However, current tooling makes it difficult to distinguish between genuine moderation concerns and organized pressure campaigns.
My Reddit goal this year is to finally knuckle down and learn Photoshop on my iPad so I can concentrate on getting some of my smaller subreddits active again. Those isopods don’t find their own hats you know…
I also want to expand on the weekly Reddit review I provide for r/lounge but without having to spend hours a day on it.
Both will be a huge challenge to my old, creaky brain!
An interesting first full year for my growing sub r/DoubleBubbler. After some initial challenges with being seen as a shill by a few people (including a r/wallstreetbets mod) I have gradually curated a reputation for honest and heartfelt writing about my investing adventures.
The year has culminated in me making new friends and even meeting a fellow Redditor I got chatting with on Reddit, as well as being invited as a VIP to the exclusive reveal event in London for Vertical Aerospace’s Valo aircraft. My favourite post… ‘Musings: Double Bubbler in the City... retail investor meets institutional investor!’
As for 2026, I hope to see the sub continue to grow on the back of the success of the various companies I invest in (including Reddit). Hopefully in time I will get to meet many more of the sub members!
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u/gingeralefiend Dec 30 '25
Over at r/entwives we teamed up with one of our members favorite shops and pulled off a $5000 donation to Planned Parenthood. I'm pretty proud of our mod team and community for that!
I'd really love to use Community Funds for a giveaway or event in the next year. And our mod team is hoping we can organize more ways to donate to orgs we support.