Free Story Submission Sites List 2027

Story submission sites are social news platforms: you submit a link, the community votes, and popular items rise to a front page that can send serious traffic. Digg defined the format and Reddit outlasted everyone.

11 sites listed4 of 15 dead, removed (27%)2026-08-19 last checked

Short answer

Reddit is what is left of this category, and one submission to the right community beats fifty everywhere.

Story submission sites let you post a link that a community votes on. Digg collapsed after 2010 and Newsvine closed in 2018, so the format now lives almost entirely inside Reddit's individual communities. A successful submission sends anywhere from a few dozen to tens of thousands of visits, concentrated in about 48 hours.

This list has 11 sites live on 2026-08-19. This category lost more members than almost any other, so what remains is short and mostly Reddit shaped.

What happened to social news

Digg collapsed after its 2010 redesign and was sold for parts. Newsvine closed in 2018. Propeller, Mixx and Reddit's various imitators are gone. Reddit absorbed nearly all of the attention and became something closer to a network of communities than a single front page.

The consequence for you is that submitting a link to a general story site does almost nothing now. Submitting it to the right specific community can still do a great deal.

How to submit a story that survives

  1. Find the specific community, not the general front page. A niche subreddit with 20,000 engaged members beats a generic feed with millions of passive ones.
  2. Read the rules and the recent posts before submitting anything. Every community has conventions and breaking them gets you removed instantly.
  3. Submit things worth reading, including other people's. Accounts that only ever post their own links get filtered out fast.
  4. Write a headline that describes the value rather than the brand. Nobody upvotes a company name.
  5. Be present in the comments. Submissions where the author answers questions do far better than drive by drops.

Free Story Submission Sites List 2027

11 verified sites

15 URLs checked on 2026-08-19. 4 were dead or parked and were removed.

Verified sites with authority score, global popularity rank and spam risk band
#WebsiteDASpam risk
1Mediummedium.com95Low
2Wattpadwattpad.com92Low
3Hubpageshubpages.comLow
4Ehowehow.comLow
5Soupsoup.ioLow
6Writersdigestwritersdigest.comLow
7Themightythemighty.comLow
8Sooperarticlessooperarticles.comLow
9Brighthubbrighthub.comMedium
10Articlesfactoryarticlesfactory.comMedium

How to read this table. DA, PA and Spam Score are real Moz figures from our own bulk checks. A dash means we have not run that domain yet, not that it scored zero, and we would rather show the gap than guess. Lower Spam Score is better. Authority is our own 0 to 100 score derived from global popularity rank, and spam risk is Low for sites with a measurable audience and valid TLS. Every site here was also confirmed to load on 2026-08-19, which is the check DA cannot make: Moz still reports a healthy DA for services that shut down years ago.

This category rewards one good submission to the right community far more than fifty submissions everywhere. The traffic when it works is real, immediate, and gone in two days, so have something worth landing on.

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