Reddit was once known as the front page of the internet and it's a place where you can find communities dedicated to obscure interests, fandoms, image posts, and more. But actually tracking down these communities can be difficult.

Here's how you can use Scrolller to find your next favorite subreddit.

Why Is It So Hard to Find Interesting Subreddits?

Reddit is a vast, sprawling website—although for a newcomer, it can be difficult to understand what Reddit is and what it does. While you can search Reddit effectively with certain tricks, it's not perfect if you don't know exactly what community you're after.

If you're searching for a community to help you learn a new skill, you might type "learn" into the search bar and hit Enter, then select Communities, and you'll see hundreds of subreddits that have "learn" as part of their name or community description.

But if you're searching for suggestions because you don't know exactly what you want to learn, this isn't ideal. While Reddit search does have an auto-suggest functionality, it's limited to five entries and only shows subreddits where your search query makes up the first part of the name.

Additionally, these five entries are ranked according to users—making it unlikely that you'll find the quirky little community you need.

How to Use Scrolller to Find Your Next Interesting Subreddit

Scrolller is an alternative front-end for Reddit focused solely on images, and is a great place to find digital art inspiration.

To get suggestions for subreddits you may want to join, click on Discover in the bottom bar and start typing—subreddit names will start appearing instantly.

Searching for inspiration, we entered the string "mid", and were shown suggestions where "mid" matched any part of the subreddit names and descriptions. These ranged from communities dedicated to the Porsche Cayman mid-engined sports car, to MidFight Masses.

You can navigate the list of suggestions using your mouse wheel, or preview the content of the associated subreddit by pressing Enter.

As Scrolller is designed for images, you won't see any text posts, and although you may have to click a Show All button to reveal NSFW results, you won't be asked for any verification or need to log in to see images.

The Limitations of Using Scrolller

Although Scrolller will help you find interesting subreddits and show you the images contained therein, it won't take you to the subreddit directly. You also can't highlight text, or operate a right-click action.

Instead, you'll need to take a note of the community name and enter it into your browser in the format reddit.com/r/subreddit-name.

Maybe Reddit Isn't for You…

If you can't find a subreddit you want to join, Reddit isn't the only user-driven community website out there. You should consider some of the other forum-based social media sites out there or opt for a more traditionally social-focused site.