r/longtermtravel rules, stats, and what to post
Know the rules before you post. So easy grandma can do it.
- To post
- No minimum in the rules
- To comment
- No minimum in the rules
- Self-promotion
- Not mentioned in the rules
- Links
- Not mentioned in the rules
- Promo risk
- Medium
- From the rules, not from removal counts
- Community age
- 13 years
- Since Oct 2013
About r/longtermtravel
A source-backed Rankhog guide to r/longtermtravel: public rules, community context, posting fit, and startup-promotion risk before you publish.Checked from the r/longtermtravel rules on Reddit.
r/longtermtravel rules
1 rule, in the community's own words.
- 1
Scraping content
What to post in r/longtermtravel
What fits the room, and what gets removed.
Works well
- A first person writeup of what six months or more on the road actually taught you, written entirely in your own words
- An honest question about a long-term travel decision, like pacing, budgeting a slow route, or staying connected while abroad
- A lesson learned from building or running something while traveling long term, shared as a story rather than a pitch
- An original answer to someone else's question, grounded in your own lived experience
- A detailed account of one long stay in one place, with your own observations and photos you took yourself
Avoid
- Posting anything you scraped, copied, or lifted from another source, because the community removes scraped content to stay authentic
- Reposting someone else's travel story, photos, or guide as if it were your own
- Using this subreddit as a dumping ground for content written for other sites or communities
- Assuming generic travel content fits here, when the community is specifically about long-term travel as a lifestyle
Best hours to post in r/longtermtravel
No pattern yet. r/longtermtravel does not have enough top posts from the last 90 days to name its best hours.
What r/longtermtravel Is For
r/longtermtravel is for long-term travelers, meaning people who treat travel as a lifestyle rather than a two week holiday. The description says it covers anything to do with long-term travel and the people who live it. The community also points out that other subreddits exist for shoestring travel, general travel, hitchhiking, and flight deals, so the focus here stays narrow and specific. If your post only makes sense to someone on the road for months at a time, this is the right room.
Rules That Matter Before Posting
There is one published rule here and it is called “Scraping content”. The rule text is short, but the intent behind it is clear from the moderator note, which says they remove scraped content to keep the community authentic. In practice that means anything you did not write yourself, or anything copied from another site or creator, is at risk of removal. There is no published rule about promotion, links, or AI content, so I cannot tell you where this community stands on those, and I will not guess.
What To Post
Post original writing that comes from your own long-term travel experience. A story from months on the road, a lesson you learned living out of a bag, or a question about a lifestyle decision all fit the description. If you are a founder, share something you genuinely made or lived, in your own words, and make it useful to people who travel long term. Keep the topic squarely on long-term travel, because the community explicitly says other subreddits cover general travel and deals.
What To Avoid
The only stated removal trigger is scraped content, so that is the line to watch. Do not copy posts, articles, photos, or answers from elsewhere and present them as your own. Do not repost content from other subreddits or websites. If you did not create it, do not post it here.
A note from Anthony
This is one of the shortest rule books I have seen, one line about scraping, but the moderator note behind it says a lot: they remove scraped content to keep the community authentic. I read that as a room that prizes real voices over recycled listicles. If your post reads like something you wrote while actually living on the road, you will fit right in.
By Anthony Riera, founder and operator of Rankhog. Every guide is built from the community's own public rules and data, then checked by Rankhog's grounding audit before it goes live.
Common questions about r/longtermtravel
What subreddits are similar to r/longtermtravel?
Subreddits like r/longtermtravel are r/travel, r/TravelHacks, r/Shoestring, r/solotravel, r/roadtrip, r/ThailandTourism, r/VisitingIceland and r/unitedairlines.
Can I share a guide I wrote about slow travel or long stays abroad?
Yes, if you write it yourself from your own long-term travel experience and it is genuinely useful to people who live this lifestyle.
Can I mention my product or blog?
The rules only ban scraped content, but nothing here suggests the room welcomes promotion, so lead with real experience and value rather than a pitch.
Are links allowed?
The published rules only cover scraping, so the safest read is that original content is fine and stolen content is not.
Can I answer questions with content from my own site?
Only if the answer or summary is your own honest work, not pasted or scraped from somewhere else.
Is this the right place for short trips or flight deals?
The description points people to other subreddits for shoestring travel, general travel, hitchhiking, and flight deals, so keep your post focused on the long-term lifestyle.
Subreddits like r/longtermtravel
Other rooms for the same crowd.