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Tales From Tech Support

Welcome to Tales From Tech Support, the subreddit where we post stories about helping someone with a tech issue.

784k subscribers52 posts / mo in Sep 202645 authors / mosince 2011

r/talesfromtechsupport has 784k members (+1.3% over the last 12 months). It gets about 52 posts a month from 45 people. Top topics: Tech Issues, Virus_Malware_Security and Printer Troubleshooting.

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Size and growth

How r/talesfromtechsupport has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+1.3%in 12 months · +0.3% in 3 months · +0.1% in 1 month
Oct 2026784k
Growing784k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
r/talesfromtechsupport

Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+24%vs Sep 2025 · −26% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 202652
BusierPeaked at 272 in Oct 2021
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/talesfromtechsupport

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Tech Issues10%
  2. Virus_Malware_Security0.3%
  3. Printer Troubleshooting0.3%
  4. Internet Explorer0.3%
  5. NAS Storage & RAID0.3%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. xkcd
  2. The Daily WTF
  3. theregister
  4. catb.org site page
  5. IMDb

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