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Tell your stories!

This is a place for every story to be told! From stories about science fiction to stories where you succeeded in life, we believe every story should have a safe space to be heard.

109k subscribers1,145 posts / mo in Sep 2026592 authors / mosince 2008

r/story has 109k members (+89% over the last 12 months). It gets about 1,145 posts a month from 592 people. Top topics: Knock Knock Horror, Noisy Neighbors and Wrong Number Stories.

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Size and growth

How r/story has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+89%in 12 months · +11% in 3 months · +2.3% in 1 month
Oct 2026108k
Growing108k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

−6.5%vs Sep 2025 · +5.3% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 20261.1k
QuieterPeaked at 1.2k in Sep 2025
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/story

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Knock Knock Horror0.3%
  2. Noisy Neighbors0.3%
  3. Wrong Number Stories0.2%
  4. Tech Speculations & Oddities0.2%
  5. TIFU Cooking0.2%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Substack
  2. Wattpad
  3. Medium
  4. Spotify
  5. Apple

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Everything else about r/story

Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research