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r/fednews

News, Information, & Discussion for Federal Employees. A vital, independent hub for US federal employees to navigate the bureaucracy, protect our careers, and support one another. We share critical insights, analyze breaking policy, and stand together with a collective voice. Content must be related to US Federal Employees, Federal Employment, US Military, or Federal Contracting & Contractors. Federal news and information related to employment, hiring, human resources, etc. This community is not associated with the US Federal Government. Founded 2013 · 614.1K members

615K members. The best post we have captured here reached 70.6K upvotes, which works out to 115 per 1,000 members.

115peak upvotes per 1,000 members
615Kmembers
70.6Kbest post
5.7Kmost comments
521posts 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.

56% 31% 12%
Link 56% Text 31% Question 12%

The topics it labels

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

News / Article 180 Workplace & Culture 37 Fed only 33 Other 28 Official Guidance / Policy 27 :OPM_seal: Pay & Benefits 24 Legal & Union Action 16 Original Analysis / OC 6 Misc Question 4 HR 3

What the ceiling looks like

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

Supervisor told us to stop posting on Reddit

↑ 70.6K 💬 1.6K text 2025

14 states file a lawsuit arguing Elon Musk's authority at DOGE is unconstitutional

↑ 56.9K 💬 1.5K link 2025

Hold the line! We made an oath to protect the constitution from threats, both foreign and domestic.

↑ 49.9K 💬 1.5K image 2025

A Most Glorious Day: Return-to-Office Mandate

↑ 41.9K 💬 1.7K text 2025

This non "buyout" really seems to have backfired

↑ 40.7K 💬 3.8K text 2025

DOGE IS SCARED at The Institute of Museum and Library Services, 955 L'Enfant Plaza. They are about to start taking phones from employees.

↑ 39.7K 💬 1.8K text 2025

FEMA employee placed on leave for saying flags shouldn't be at half-staff for 'racist homophobe' Charlie Kirk

↑ 35.3K 💬 1.3K link 2025

KEEP SHOUTING THE TRUTH, KEEP RINGING THE BELL: It's working!

↑ 35.2K 💬 917 text 2025

BREAKING: Supreme Court ENFORCES Order Making Administration Pay USAIDS Contracts ASAP

↑ 33.5K 💬 1.4K text 2025

YOU'RE FIRED! Well, I am actually.

↑ 30.6K 💬 2.4K text 2025

Communities its size

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

r/fednews, in numbers

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

What is r/fednews?
r/fednews ("News, Information, & Discussion for Federal Employees") describes itself this way: A vital, independent hub for US federal employees to navigate the bureaucracy, protect our careers, and support one another. We share critical insights, analyze breaking policy, and stand together with a collective voice. Content must be related to US Federal Employees, Federal Employment, US Military, or Federal Contracting & Contractors. Federal news and information related to employment, hiring, human resources, etc. This community is not associated with the US Federal Government. It was founded in 2013 and has 614.1K members.
How many members does r/fednews have?
r/fednews has about 615K members. ViralHunt has tracked 521 of its posts; the biggest reached 70.6K upvotes, which is 115 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/fednews?
"Supervisor told us to stop posting on Reddit" reached 70.6K upvotes and 1.6K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/fednews.
What subreddits are similar to r/fednews?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/thescoop.
What kind of posts do best on r/fednews?
Of the posts we hold, 56% are link posts and 31% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/fednews?
Across 521 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 23:00 UTC (24.1K avg upvotes), Saturday at 21:00 UTC (15.8K avg upvotes), Monday at 14:00 UTC (13.4K 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/fednews?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/fednews has 24K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 65 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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