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r/discworld

A sub dedicated to the works of Terry Pratchett, including (but not limited to) the hugely popular Discworld series of books. Founded 2010 · 136.4K members

136.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 9.3K upvotes, which works out to 68 per 1,000 members.

68peak upvotes per 1,000 members
136.9Kmembers
9.3Kbest post
636most comments
114posts 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.

84% 11%
Image 84% Gallery 11% Text 3% Question 1% Link 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.

Memes/Humour 34 Art 13 Roundworld Reference 11 Cosplay 8 Politics 7 RoundWorld 5 Book/Series: City Watch 5 Book/Series: Witches 4 News 4 Book/Series: Unseen University 4

What the ceiling looks like

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

Thinking of this today

↑ 9.3K 💬 360 image 2024

100%

↑ 8.6K 💬 636 image 2022

Pratchett being Pratchett

↑ 6.6K 💬 170 image 2026

Yer a Kevin now Harry!

↑ 6.2K 💬 132 image 2023

A friend sent me this today.

↑ 5.6K 💬 94 image 2025

My favorite Pratchett quote

↑ 5.4K 💬 135 image 2025

Comic-Con Prague 2026. This year was a goo one aright :]

↑ 5.3K 💬 189 gallery 2026

I hope that this is ok here

↑ 5K 💬 149 image 2023

Yeth Martther

↑ 4.9K 💬 117 image 2026

STP never fails to amaze me

↑ 4.8K 💬 76 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/discworld, in numbers

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

What is r/discworld?
r/discworld describes itself this way: A sub dedicated to the works of Terry Pratchett, including (but not limited to) the hugely popular Discworld series of books. It was founded in 2010 and has 136.4K members.
How many members does r/discworld have?
r/discworld has about 136.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 114 of its posts; the biggest reached 9.3K upvotes, which is 68 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/discworld?
"Thinking of this today" reached 9.3K upvotes and 360 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/discworld.
What subreddits are similar to r/discworld?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/topofreddit, r/PopCultureV2.
What kind of posts do best on r/discworld?
Of the posts we hold, 84% are image posts and 11% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/discworld?
Across 114 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 19:00 UTC (3.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 01:00 UTC (3.3K avg upvotes), Monday at 15:00 UTC (3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/discworld?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/discworld has 4.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 3 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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