These icons will sort the posts by Best, Hot, New, Top, or Rising if you’re logged in. You can sort these posts by clicking one of the icons on the ribbon menu located underneath the Create Post text box (if you’re logged in with a Reddit account) or under a smaller header called Popular Posts, if you’re not logged in. The homepage (or “front page”) shows you various posts that are currently trending on the site, pulled from a variety of subreddits. If you’re just looking at Reddit for the first time, you may be a bit confused by what you are seeing, so here’s a quick rundown. Those are straightforward subreddits, but they can get weird, such as r/birdswitharms, a subreddit devoted to pictures of birds…with arms.
For example, r/nba is a subreddit where people talk about the National Basketball Association, while r/boardgames is a subreddit for people to discuss board games. The name of a subreddit begins with “r/,” which is part of the URL that Reddit uses. Reddit is broken up into more than a million communities known as “subreddits,” each of which covers a different topic.
