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r/Edinburgh

Edinburgh: News, Events and Discussion. Welcome to the original Edinburgh subreddit, for those who love the city, or live here and want to talk about it, or for those passers by who are interested. Founded 2010 · 320.3K members

321K members. The best post we have captured here reached 29.2K upvotes, which works out to 91 per 1,000 members.

91peak upvotes per 1,000 members
321Kmembers
29.2Kbest post
1.5Kmost comments
104posts 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.

87%
Image 87% Gallery 5% Text 4% Video 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.

Photo 63 Discussion 10 Humour 5 Rant 4 Other 2 Transport 2 Video 2 Food and Drink 2 Question 1 Festivals 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Massive turnout at the trans rights protest today! Proud of you Edinburgh ❤️

↑ 29.2K 💬 257 image 2025

view from my old flat

↑ 15.7K 💬 160 image 2024

Should've....

↑ 8.6K 💬 145 image 2024

My humble creative contribution to this year's Fringe...

↑ 8.1K 💬 138 image 2026

Made my morning

↑ 7.6K 💬 57 image 2026

So we're just going to pretend this is a coincidence, right?

↑ 7.4K 💬 137 image 2026

Something fishy on the No5 bus today...

↑ 7K 💬 445 image 2023

no flame of course 💅

↑ 7K 💬 171 image 2025

American tourists; we love you, but USD is not a universal currency. Please stop.

↑ 6.5K 💬 1.5K text 2024

Wee baby seal at Wardie Bay

↑ 5.8K 💬 137 image 2022

Communities its size

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

r/Edinburgh, in numbers

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

What is r/Edinburgh?
r/Edinburgh ("Edinburgh: News, Events and Discussion") describes itself this way: Welcome to the original Edinburgh subreddit, for those who love the city, or live here and want to talk about it, or for those passers by who are interested. It was founded in 2010 and has 320.3K members.
How many members does r/Edinburgh have?
r/Edinburgh has about 321K members. ViralHunt has tracked 104 of its posts; the biggest reached 29.2K upvotes, which is 91 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Edinburgh?
"Massive turnout at the trans rights protest today! Proud of you Edinburgh ❤️" reached 29.2K upvotes and 257 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Edinburgh.
What subreddits are similar to r/Edinburgh?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes.
What kind of posts do best on r/Edinburgh?
Of the posts we hold, 87% are image posts and 5% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Edinburgh?
Across 104 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 08:00 UTC (4.2K avg upvotes), Friday at 16:00 UTC (3.8K avg upvotes), Friday at 13:00 UTC (2.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. 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/Edinburgh?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Edinburgh has 3.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 1 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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