r/DesignPorn
DesignPorn: Amazing Design Images, Renderings & Models
Founded May 2011 · Public — anyone can post
High quality images of interesting designs, including architectural, graphic, industrial, furniture & product design.
Members
2,374,798
2.4M
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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Growth · 7d
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Growth · 30d
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Published rules
5
1 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
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Distinct posters
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Tracking since Sep 5 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
Tracking since Sep 5 — growth charts appear after a week of history.
What works in r/DesignPorn
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| Show & tell | 88% | 10,867 |
| News / link | 10% | 36,789 |
| Discussion | 2% | 49,385 |
Based on 60 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 4,562
- Top 10% score
- 37,889
- Text posts
- 0%
- Got no replies
- 3%
- Busiest windows
- Mon 12:00 UTC, Mon 13:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is banned.
- Design-Related Posts Only: r/DesignPorn is for design only. If the focus of the image is artwork and/or sculpture, it belongs in r/ArtPorn or another artwork-related subreddit.
- Only Submit Static Images: Videos, collections, interactive images/websites, and articles are not allowed.
- Self Promotion: Don't post your own designs.
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Humorous and witty observations related to the design.
- — Providing context or explanation for the design, especially for historical or cultural references.
- — Sharing personal experiences or relatable situations inspired by the design.
- — Identifying specific design elements or techniques that make the design effective.
- — Engaging in lighthearted debate or discussion about the design's implications or aesthetics.
- — Correcting factual inaccuracies in a helpful manner.
What r/DesignPorn's rules say about promotion
1 of 5 published rules mentions promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
Self Promotion
rule 5 of 5
Don't post your own designs.
Removal reason shown to posters: Don't post your own designs.
The other 4
- Design-Related Posts Only
- Only Submit Static Images
- Use a Descriptive Title
- Avoid Reposts
Read from r/DesignPorn’s published rules on Sep 5. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.
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r/DesignPorn — frequently asked
How many members does r/DesignPorn have?
r/DesignPorn has 2,374,798 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 5. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/DesignPorn growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/DesignPorn yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 5; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/DesignPorn?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/DesignPorn yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/DesignPorn created?
r/DesignPorn was founded in May 2011 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Can I promote my product in r/DesignPorn?
r/DesignPorn publishes 5 rules and 1 of them addresses promotion. The first, “Self Promotion”, says: Don't post your own designs. Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/DesignPorn for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/DesignPorn into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/DesignPorn's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/DesignPorn's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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