How many members does r/Design have?

r/Design has about 4.5M members (as of July 2026).

How active is r/Design?

r/Design gets roughly 16 new posts per day (measured July 2026).

Promotion banned

Promoting on r/Design: Rules and What Gets Removed

r/Design is a large design community with 4,452,567 members, focused on design and on sharing work that has a functional purpose.

4.5M

members

~16

posts / day

2008

created

community rules

Can you promote your product in r/Design?

No, you cannot promote your product in r/Design. Rule 1, "No promotional/commercial activities," says, "This community is not for self-promotion" and adds, "You also cannot promote your own products, services, brand, or shop - including your design services."

The rules that cover promotion

Rule 1: No promotional/commercial activities.

"This community is not for self-promotion - social media pushing, surveys, or advertising."

Rule 1: No promotional/commercial activities.

"You also cannot promote your own products, services, brand, or shop - including your design services."

Rule 1: No promotional/commercial activities.

"It’s also not for job-searching or recruitment: please use r/designjobs, r/forhire, r/jobs, or r/picrequests instead."

Quoted from the subreddit's own rules, snapshot from July 2026. Read all 8 rules on Reddit

What gets removed

Promotional and commercial activity, including self-promotion, surveys, advertising, and social media pushing
Promotion of your own products, services, brand, shop, or design services
Claiming someone else's work as your own, repeated offenders will receive a ban
Memes, low effort posts, and obvious AI-generated posts, AI-generated posts will result in a ban

Safer ways to show up

Post work for feedback only if you add a comment with context about the objective, audience, and design decisions
If you post someone else's work, credit them appropriately and use the 'Someone Else's Work' flair
Keep posts focused on design with functional purpose, not art, illustration, or off-topic material
Use the job-related subreddits named in Rule 1 if your post is about hiring, recruiting, or job-searching

Whatever the written rules say, the pattern that gets promo removed everywhere is the same: batches of similar comments, reused wording, and necro-posting on old threads. A promotional mention only has value if it survives, so pace matters more than volume. We measured this the expensive way: 70% of bought pool comments were removed within two weeks. See also how to find customers on Reddit without getting banned.