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My Reddits

Before I was a blogger, I was a talented moderator on a homeschooling list. This year, I have kind of taken that back up again via Reddit.

This is my current list of Reddits (yes, I sort of randomly added some spaces to the List to make it matchup some with the image on my laptop):
  1. r/ClothingStartups

  2. r/GigWorks
  3. r/CitizenPlanners

  4. r/aberdeenwa
  5. r/UrbanForestry

  6. r/Seward
  7. r/HousingWorks

  8. r/pocketputer
  9. r/frenchwardrobe

  10. r/Walkable
  11. r/CoastalWA

  12. r/HealthWorks
  13. r/Knits

  14. r/SolanoRail
  15. r/NorthToAlaska
  16. r/NorthToAlsaska
  17. r/Relo
  18. r/TheCrescent


I created Urban Forestry just days ago and until today it had one member, me. I announced it on r/UrbanPlanning today and it was up to 27 members as I began this post, which makes it larger than about three-quarters of the Reddits I own.

I am not even done with putting this post together and that figure is already out of date. It's continuing to pick up members owing to the size of r/UrbanPlanning and it being a topic of genuine interest to planners.

Some of my reddits match specific websites. SolanoRail on Reddit was created to go with the site Solano Rail.

Other times they are more loosely related and listed in the sidebar of some blog or a few blogs that are somewhat related. So my activity on Reddit is interrelated with my blogging to some degree and tends to cover similar topics: Health, housing issues, placemaking, etc.

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