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r/darksky

39.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 3.8K upvotes, which works out to 95 per 1,000 members.

95peak upvotes per 1,000 members
39.6Kmembers
3.8Kbest post
128most comments
100posts 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.

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Link 70% Image 21% Text 4% Video 3% Gallery 1% Question 1%

What the ceiling looks like

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

“It’s not in everybody’s heads... It is real. Headlights are getting brighter. They’re getting brighter, they’re getting smaller, and they’re getting…

↑ 3.8K 💬 28 link 2025

Something everyone can agree with

↑ 3.5K 💬 24 image 2024

Dystopian photo shows how data center has brought permanent DAYLIGHT to rural Texas area

↑ 2.4K 💬 97 link 2026

Astronomers Horrified by Enormous Mirror Satellite That Reflects Sunlight Back Down to Earth at Night | It's an "existential threat."

↑ 2.3K 💬 128 link 2026

Maine Millennial: "Car headlights are too damn bright, and the government needs to do something about it."

↑ 2.1K 💬 55 link 2024

Carmakers Don't Think They Should Have to Fix Blindingly Bright Headlights | In the past four years, GM and now Tesla have tried to skirt recalls by …

↑ 1.9K 💬 99 link 2026

"More than 50 newborn loggerhead sea turtle hatchlings died this weekend on Florida's Anna Maria Island after getting disoriented by artificial light…

↑ 1.5K 💬 22 link 2026

Amazon's Satellites Are Impacting Astronomy | "...in 92% of observations, the satellites exceeded the brightness level for astronomical research, whi…

↑ 1.5K 💬 25 link 2026

Dark skies across America are rapidly disappearing. Nevada is fighting to maintain theirs - "People don't see dark skies as a resource"

↑ 1.4K 💬 10 link 2025

Denmark is turning off the white light from its streetlamps and painting a road red to solve a nighttime crisis that almost no one sees: urban light …

↑ 1.2K 💬 21 link 2026

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/darksky, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.