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r/AustinNSFW

Everything Austin, Texas. The place for all things Austin, TX. Founded 2008 · 634.5K members

635.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 17K upvotes, which works out to 27 per 1,000 members.

27peak upvotes per 1,000 members
635.9Kmembers
17Kbest post
2.3Kmost comments
992posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

33% 21% 20% 11% 9%
Text 33% Question 21% Image 20% Link 11% Gallery 9% Video 6%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Ask Austin 287 News 70 PSA 31 Pics 27 Traffic 26 Shitpost 12 Lost pet 10 FAQ 8 History 7 To-do 6

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Bigoted vandalism met its match: the Austin Fire Department

↑ 17K 💬 369 gallery 2025

Beware - this man ran me off the road then drew his gun at me

↑ 16K 💬 2.3K image 2025

Seen on E Cesar Chavez

↑ 14.8K 💬 185 image 2025

Help Identify Assailants in Violent Transphobic Hate Crime at Barton Springs (Sat, July 26) (APD #25-2071161)

↑ 14.5K 💬 284 gallery 2025

Happy SXSW everyone! (Downtown in front of the courthouse)

↑ 13.5K 💬 546 image 2025

Like my Halloween costume?

↑ 12.4K 💬 180 image 2025

I filmed the same parking garage in Austin for 1 year, here’s what I saw.

↑ 12.2K 💬 367 video 2026

Shots I took during last night’s storm

↑ 10.9K 💬 202 gallery 2025

Probably the coolest thing I’ve ever captured on video

↑ 10.8K 💬 281 video 2026

PSA

↑ 8.8K 💬 155 image 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Austin, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Austin?
r/Austin ("Everything Austin, Texas") describes itself this way: The place for all things Austin, TX. It was founded in 2008 and has 634.5K members.
How many members does r/Austin have?
r/Austin has about 635.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 992 of its posts; the biggest reached 17K upvotes, which is 27 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Austin?
"Bigoted vandalism met its match: the Austin Fire Department" reached 17K upvotes and 369 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Austin.
What subreddits are similar to r/Austin?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Yosemite, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/thescoop, r/madisonwi.
What kind of posts do best on r/Austin?
Of the posts we hold, 33% are text posts and 21% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Austin?
Across 992 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 20:00 UTC (6.1K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 04:00 UTC (3.4K avg upvotes), Thursday at 04:00 UTC (2.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/Austin?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Austin has 7.3K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 314 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Austin, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.