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112.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 588 upvotes, which works out to 5 per 1,000 members.

5peak upvotes per 1,000 members
112.5Kmembers
588best post
260most comments
301posts 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.

61% 30% 9%
Text 61% Question 30% Link 9%

The topics it labels

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

Question 88 Vent 47 Discussion 45 Support wanted 41 Rant 33 Personal Win 8 Resources 7 Mental Health 5 JUST Support 5 Chronic Pain 5

What the ceiling looks like

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

My partner is about to leave me due to my illness, even though I supported him through his.

↑ 588 💬 102 text 2026

what's up with doctors / medical professionals putting blatantly incorrect things in our files?

↑ 308 💬 144 question 2026

CVS Pharmacy by me is doing construction and has no handicap spots because of it. Decided I’m tire of this ableist crap and reported them

↑ 216 💬 31 text 2026

What would you do if you woke up tomorrow and were completely cured?

↑ 188 💬 260 question 2026

Living with a chronic condition means getting very good at saying “I'm fine” while also knowing “fine” has approximately 47 different meanings.

↑ 187 💬 24 text 2026

Fork theory makes so much more sense (to me) than spoon theory

↑ 167 💬 43 text 2026

Am I mean for wanting my boyfriend at the hospital?

↑ 159 💬 85 question 2026

chronic illness really shows you how quickly the life you once knew can be taken away from you.

↑ 147 💬 10 text 2026

The Paradox

↑ 127 💬 23 text 2026

I feel like chronic illness has taken away my ability to feel beautiful

↑ 125 💬 22 text 2026

Communities its size

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

r/ChronicIllness, in numbers

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

How many members does r/ChronicIllness have?
r/ChronicIllness has about 112.5K members. ViralHunt has tracked 301 of its posts; the biggest reached 588 upvotes, which is 5 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/ChronicIllness?
"My partner is about to leave me due to my illness, even though I supported him through his." reached 588 upvotes and 102 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/ChronicIllness.
What subreddits are similar to r/ChronicIllness?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone.
What kind of posts do best on r/ChronicIllness?
Of the posts we hold, 61% are text posts and 30% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/ChronicIllness?
Across 301 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 00:00 UTC (78 avg upvotes), Saturday at 00:00 UTC (56 avg upvotes), Sunday at 17:00 UTC (29 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/ChronicIllness?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/ChronicIllness has 59 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 301 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/ChronicIllness, 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.