The r/maleinfertility 2026 community update

What a whirlwind of whatever 2025 thought it could serve up, but in the end we held strong and continued to allow men (and partners) a forum on the topic of male infertility and male perspectives on infertility.

First the TD:LR - to facilitate faster facilitation of feedback for fellas, posts no longer require manual approval and posts must be written in a first-person male perspective and also not broadcast too many in-range parameters. Furthermore, posters must assign discussion flair unless the conversation is adjacent to the recreational consumption of trt-associated medications in which case they will assign 'trt-adjacent' flair. We'll see how that goes. As always, all of the rules everywhere.

The fine print and words of wonder (is it a warning?, I don't know) - Because posts no longer require manual approval, folks will be seeing rule-breaking content that was previously screened during manual post approval. All efforts will be made to remove rule-breaking content as quickly as possible. Your reports and messages help in this effort.

I didn't want to force users to assign flair, but it's important to the community that posts that touch upon trt-adjacent infertility issues are labeled as such. I'd like to see how this change influences posting behavior and monitor it accordingly.

I'd like partners to find a place to converge on the topic of male infertility in our daily partners' perspectives' threads.' If any partners are interested in joining moderation efforts to promote such discourse, please let me know. Additionally, if anyone is interested in participating in moderation efforts, let me know. At some point I'm going to offer moderatorships to reddit nerds, I just want to make sure this community know I'm here if needed.