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r/CitiesSkylines

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

635.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 33.3K upvotes, which works out to 52 per 1,000 members.

52peak upvotes per 1,000 members
635.7Kmembers
33.3Kbest post
5.6Kmost comments
938posts 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.

40% 27% 12% 9%
Gallery 40% Image 27% Text 12% Question 9% Video 7% Link 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.

Sharing a City :CS1: 289 Sharing a City :CS2: 162 Help & Support (PC) :CS1: 89 Discussion :CS1: 67 Help & Support (PC) :CS2: 57 Modding Release :CS2: 46 Screenshot 43 Discussion :CS2: 39 Help & Support (Console) :CS1: 27 Video 19

What the ceiling looks like

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

Cities: Skylines II Announcement Trailer

↑ 33.3K 💬 5.6K video 2023

How roads should work in Cities Skylines 2 (OC)

↑ 23.1K 💬 533 video 2021

Cities: Skylines II Official Gameplay Trailer | Coming October 24th, 2023

↑ 20.9K 💬 4.1K video 2023

Too Soon?

↑ 15.6K 💬 87 image 2021

Welcome to Hell.

↑ 15.4K 💬 420 image 2019

Intersection Marking Tool 1.2 released.

↑ 14.6K 💬 334 video 2020

Dutch Solutions: The sea level is just a number!

↑ 14.6K 💬 267 image 2021

They definitely went for more realistic scale

↑ 14.1K 💬 482 image 2023

If you're having traffic problems I feel bad for you son / I'm a traffic engineer and I made you a guide.

↑ 14.1K 💬 709 image 2015

I have terrible creativity

↑ 13.8K 💬 212 image 2019

Communities its size

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

r/CitiesSkylines, in numbers

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

How many members does r/CitiesSkylines have?
r/CitiesSkylines has about 635.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 938 of its posts; the biggest reached 33.3K upvotes, which is 52 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/CitiesSkylines?
"Cities: Skylines II Announcement Trailer" reached 33.3K upvotes and 5.6K comments in 2023, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/CitiesSkylines.
What subreddits are similar to r/CitiesSkylines?
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/CitiesSkylines?
Of the posts we hold, 40% are gallery posts and 27% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/CitiesSkylines?
Across 938 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 12:00 UTC (8.1K avg upvotes), Thursday at 07:00 UTC (6.2K avg upvotes), Sunday at 22:00 UTC (5.6K 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/CitiesSkylines?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/CitiesSkylines has 11.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 304 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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