Since its surge in popularity in 2006, Reddit has truly become the epicenter of social news and information. We're in an age where the newspaper is gradually inching towards extinction as more and more people are turning towards RSS feeds and social media. Reddit is a community that is completely powered by their users and that's why it is such a success today.

Just as newspapers have sectioned categories, Reddit contains subreddits. Each subreddit is narrowly targeted toward a specific idea or interest, and by adding a particular subreddit to your frontpage you are opting in to receiving the latest and most popular content from that section. If you're interested in topics like Apple, DIY, or food then Reddit has a home for you. But what about the deeper and more obscure topics?

Maybe you want to see what people are cooking for dinner tonight? Or perhaps you want to find new and inspiring mashup tunes to listen to?  These subreddits may be buried deep within the community, but I'm going to show you how to find them.

Using Reddit Itself

Coincidentally enough, you're able to find great subreddits using the simple features provided by the website. It's nice to be able to down two birds with one stone - improving Reddit while enjoying it.

Official Subreddits Page

This page may be the very best resource, and it is so often overlooked.

The page aggregates all of the current subreddits that you have active on your frontpage and combines them with the most popular subreddits overall to offer you relevant suggestions. There should be hundreds of suggested pages shown as well as a complete list of your currently frontpage'd subreddits in the menu to the far right (or only 50 if you have more and are not a Reddit Gold member).

/r/subredditoftheday & /r/newreddits

Just as the names entail, you can follow these two to get a consistent flow of new and interesting subreddits pushed directly to your frontpage. As an added bonus, you can find lots of additional subreddits just by participating in the community and checking out comments that are posted. It's almost like Inception at this point - finding subreddits within comments inside of a subreddit while on Reddit.

Third-Party Services

If Reddit itself doesn't offer enough for you, there are a whole slew of third-party sites that parse and index subreddits to search through. Here are my two personal favorites.

Metareddi [No Longer Available]

Metareddit is generally considered to be the best and most user-friendly way of hunting for your new favorite subreddit. If there was a way to authenticate this as the official third-party subreddit service, I'd do it.

Metareddit offers lots of functionality, some of which is completely unrelated to subreddit-searching. It's a true way to archive and categorize subreddits, not just find them. You can search through subreddits by keyword, tags, or logo. At the time of this post, more then 90,000 subreddits are indexed in the Metareddit database, so that's pretty impressive.

They also offer a monitor feature, which is basically the equivalent of a service such as Google Alerts. You can search for a keyword trigger in Reddit posts and comments and it'll return the freshest results to you. This is a pretty unique way to find new subreddits, also. Stalk is just as good, with a little side of creepy. If you're obsessive over a particular Redditor's posts or interests, you can use the feature to find exactly what subreddits they are frequenting.

Subreddits

This site is incredibly easy to navigate and utilize. Right on the frontpage, you're presented with the most popular subreddits and respective categories.

Across the top menu, you'll also notice links for you to navigate the top 3,000 subreddits and sort them from a tag cloud.

If you weren't able to find exactly what you were looking for in this post, I'm willing to bet that you can find it in The Reddit Manual.  Or if you know of another good resource we haven't mentioned here, be sure to let us in on the secret in the comments.