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.
44%38%9%
Video 44%Image 38%Text 9%Gallery 7%Link 2%Question 1%
The topics it labels
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
Intentionally Bad UI 120Unintentionally Bad UI 115Found in the Wild 27Self-Made Bad UI 21Bad Ui BATTLE 9Request 7Bad UI 1
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/badUIbattles?
r/badUIbattles ("bad User Interfaces") describes itself this way: Welcome to r/badUIbattles! This community is for bad UI design. It was founded in 2018 and has 273.2K members.
How many members does r/badUIbattles have?
r/badUIbattles has about 273.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 301 of its posts; the biggest reached 14.7K upvotes, which is 54 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/badUIbattles?
"Mamdani’s ad for one-click sub cancels features only elite badUI ball knowledge" reached 14.7K upvotes and 231 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/badUIbattles.
What subreddits are similar to r/badUIbattles?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/badUIbattles?
Of the posts we hold, 44% are video posts and 38% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/badUIbattles?
Across 301 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 00:00 UTC (1.9K avg upvotes), Monday at 21:00 UTC (1.5K avg upvotes), Monday at 12:00 UTC (1.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/badUIbattles?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/badUIbattles has 2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 27 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/badUIbattles, 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.