espresso: strong, potent coffee news for strong, potent coffee lovers.. The place to discuss the beans, brewing, and tools used to make the style of coffee known as "espresso", and all the forms it takes. New to espresso? Check out our "Brewing Basics" guide and Frequently Asked Questions in our wiki and linked in the sidebar! Founded 2010 · 1M members
1M members. The best post we have captured here reached
38.1K upvotes, which works out to
37 per 1,000 members.
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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Text 34%Image 26%Question 17%Gallery 13%Video 10%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.
Buying Advice Needed 261Equipment Discussion 196Coffee Station 124Maintenance & Troubleshooting 121Dialing In Help 81Coffee Is Life 59Coffee Beans 47General Coffee Chat 42Humour 41Espresso Theory & Technique 33
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/espresso?
r/espresso ("espresso: strong, potent coffee news for strong, potent coffee lovers.") describes itself this way: The place to discuss the beans, brewing, and tools used to make the style of coffee known as "espresso", and all the forms it takes. New to espresso? Check out our "Brewing Basics" guide and Frequently Asked Questions in our wiki and linked in the sidebar. It was founded in 2010 and has 1M members.
How many members does r/espresso have?
r/espresso has about 1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.1K of its posts; the biggest reached 38.1K upvotes, which is 37 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/espresso?
"John Cena knows his espresso!" reached 38.1K upvotes and 2K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/espresso.
What subreddits are similar to r/espresso?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois, r/economicCollapse.
What kind of posts do best on r/espresso?
Of the posts we hold, 34% are text posts and 26% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/espresso?
Across 1.1K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 11:00 UTC (13.6K avg upvotes), Friday at 13:00 UTC (2.9K avg upvotes), Thursday at 00:00 UTC (2.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/espresso?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/espresso has 3.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 302 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/espresso, 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.