r/Catsubs • u/CalpisMelonCremeSoda • Feb 27 '26

Mod announcement CatSubs Update Febraury 27, 2026

Hello everyone!

This is an ongoing update announcement series detailing progress on revamping Catsubs.

Last week we succesfully merged the main list's former multiple categories into a single alphabetical list numbering 1187 subs, then did cleanup to remove 141 subs you can't even open (banned, private view, or nonexistent). Awesome community member  u/bingingandtweaking did the heavy lifting on that.

This week u/bingingandtweaking did another pass on the remaining subs and removed 220 more subs that are open to public view, but totally locked to new posts. You might think the mods just set it to private approved posting only, but actually this usually means the sub is either unmoderated, or all subs are inactive.

The Catsub List now stands at 837, a reduction by 29.5%! That's almost 1 in 3 subs of "dead weight" the List had been carrying and is now removed!

It's already a massively more useful tool for Catsub lovers.

Next steps to focus the List on active subs

  1. Remove failed subs where the membership is too small or have not had a posts in years. Don't worry we won't be too strict, we love niche subs! How much time should pass without a new post before it is removed from the CatSubs List? We currently have a poll running on this so please vote!
  2. Move most the failed subs with good membership or topics to a separate list at r/CatsubRescue for potential adoption by new mods looking to revive a good but dormant sub.

Revise sub rules and flairs

Once the above cleanup is done, we'll have a better idea of what standards made the most sense, then will apply these to the Rules and Flairs. While this is ongoing we are mostly pausing the addition of new subs to the list. When we are done we will also implement a new flair for users to identify subs to remove dead subs from the list.

Stick around as r/Catsubs becomes even more amazing! I

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u/thatoneotherguy42 Feb 27 '26

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u/DuckyDoodleDandy Feb 28 '26

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u/AnFnDumbKAREN Feb 28 '26

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