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Dota 2 on Reddit. /r/DotA2 is the most popular English-speaking community to discuss gameplay, esports, and news related to Valve's award winning free-to-play MOBA DotA 2. Founded 2010 · 1.8M members

1.8M members. The best post we have captured here reached 49.5K upvotes, which works out to 28 per 1,000 members.

28peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.8Mmembers
49.5Kbest post
12.6Kmost comments
1.5Kposts 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.

35% 33% 15% 8%
Text 35% Image 33% Question 15% Video 8% Gallery 5% Link 4%

The topics it labels

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

Discussion 382 Fluff 226 Question 124 Bug 93 Complaint 88 Artwork 60 Other 56 Suggestion 56 Article 55 Screenshot 47

What the ceiling looks like

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

Join the Battle for Net Neutrality! Net neutrality will die in a month and will affect Dota 2 and many other websites and services, unless we fight f…

↑ 49.5K 💬 1.2K link 2017

7.00

↑ 36.2K 💬 5.3K link 2016

John "TotalBiscuit" Bain has passed away after a long fight with cancer.

↑ 28.4K 💬 741 link 2018

Congratulations to the Winners of the International 7!

↑ 26K 💬 3.2K text 2017

/R/LEAGUEOFLEGENDS DOESN'T WANT THIS PIC OF OUR HERO RTZ ON THE FRONT PAGE, WHAT DO YOU THINK /R/TZ

↑ 23.4K 💬 581 image 2017

Experienced player gives helpful advice to someone who just started

↑ 21.1K 💬 752 image 2017

Congratulations to the winners of The International 2018

↑ 20.8K 💬 3.9K text 2018

The Dueling Fates

↑ 20.3K 💬 6.3K link 2017

Ninjaboogie on why SMG kicked him

↑ 20.1K 💬 667 image 2022

Congratulations to the Champions of The International 2019!

↑ 20K 💬 3.1K text 2019

Communities its size

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

r/DotA2, in numbers

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

What is r/DotA2?
r/DotA2 ("Dota 2 on Reddit") describes itself this way: /r/DotA2 is the most popular English-speaking community to discuss gameplay, esports, and news related to Valve's award winning free-to-play MOBA DotA 2. It was founded in 2010 and has 1.8M members.
How many members does r/DotA2 have?
r/DotA2 has about 1.8M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.5K of its posts; the biggest reached 49.5K upvotes, which is 28 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/DotA2?
"Join the Battle for Net Neutrality! Net neutrality will die in a month and will affect Dota 2 and many other websites and services, unless w" reached 49.5K upvotes and 1.2K comments in 2017, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/DotA2.
What subreddits are similar to r/DotA2?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota, r/Amazing, r/PcBuild.
What kind of posts do best on r/DotA2?
Of the posts we hold, 35% are text posts and 33% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/DotA2?
Across 1.5K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 01:00 UTC (12.6K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 17:00 UTC (6.9K avg upvotes), Sunday at 01:00 UTC (6.2K 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/DotA2?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/DotA2 has 16.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 323 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/DotA2, 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.