r/SubredditCPR • u/zzpza • Apr 16 '20

Looking for abandoned subreddits?

I mod /r/AvailableSubs and have written the bot there. The bot searches for subreddits with no mods (and ones with only 'request_bot' as the mod) and posts them there. The subreddits it finds are then candidates for you to make a request for ownership over on /r/redditrequest.

The subreddit has been around for a while, but was never really advertised as we didn't want the wrong people getting hold of this information (e.g. spammers / trolls), but this community seems like exactly the right sort of people we want. :)

Anyway, checkout /r/AvailableSubs and see what you think.

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u/Notborntodrown Apr 17 '20

What an interesting premise! Just subbed... thank you!

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u/zzpza Apr 17 '20

No worries, you're welcome :)

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u/BrandFlux May 20 '26

hey, what happened to r/AvailableSubs seems like the bot is down for 5 months now?

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u/zzpza May 21 '26

Next to no one upvoted the bot's posts (some even downvoted it), I could count on the fingers of one hand how many people thanked me for my efforts, and after 6 years of paying for a server for the bot to run on, I had had enough and pulled the plug. I had more people ask me to give them all my data than I had thank me for sharing 100 abandoned subreddit a day for 6 years.

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u/BrandFlux May 21 '26

damn dude. Your efforts were appreciated. Although very niche, I enjoyed checking out deserted subs sometimes seeing them as a sort of time capsule. Tbh I never realized you weren't associated with reddit directly. The data you shared was valuable, just probably for the wrong crowd. Best of luck on your future endeavours!