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Gadgets Founded 2007 · 22.8M members · links only

22.8M members. The best post we have captured here reached 84.6K upvotes, which works out to 4 per 1,000 members.

4peak upvotes per 1,000 members
22.8Mmembers
84.6Kbest post
9.4Kmost comments
1.2Kposts 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.

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The topics it labels

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

Phones 41 Misc 33 Gaming 27 Desktops / Laptops 21 Home 11 Mobile phones 10 Wearables 10 Computer peripherals 9 Medical 8 Cameras 8

What the ceiling looks like

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

EU proposes mandatory USB-C on all devices, including iPhones

↑ 84.6K 💬 5.5K link 2021

US lawmakers announce bill to prohibit bot scalping of high demand goods

↑ 78.9K 💬 3.2K link 2021

Apple apologizes for iPhone slowdown drama, will offer $29 battery replacements for a year.

↑ 63K 💬 9.4K link 2017

300 Drones Formed a QR Code That Rick Rolled Dallas on April Fools' Day

↑ 62.8K 💬 742 link 2022

Logitech finally finds a good use for wireless charging: A mouse pad. With a Powerplay mouse pad, never again will your wireless mouse run out of pow…

↑ 60.5K 💬 2.5K link 2017

Apple Warns Looters With Stolen iPhones: You Are Being Tracked

↑ 59.5K 💬 2.7K link 2020

The S9 Keeps the 3.5mm Headphone Jack!

↑ 59.5K 💬 4.9K link 2018

EU lawmakers impose single charger for all smartphones

↑ 59.4K 💬 3.4K link 2022

Samsung introduces a solar-powered remote control eliminating the need for batteries and improving both environmental impact and consumer convenience.

↑ 55.3K 💬 1.5K link 2021

94-year-old inventor of lithium-ion batteries develops safer, more efficient glass battery

↑ 53.6K 💬 1.5K link 2017

Communities its size

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

r/gadgets, in numbers

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

What is r/gadgets?
r/gadgets describes itself this way: Gadgets. It was founded in 2007 and has 22.8M members.
How many members does r/gadgets have?
r/gadgets has about 22.8M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.2K of its posts; the biggest reached 84.6K upvotes, which is 4 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/gadgets?
"EU proposes mandatory USB-C on all devices, including iPhones" reached 84.6K upvotes and 5.5K comments in 2021, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/gadgets.
What subreddits are similar to r/gadgets?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/dankmemes, r/therewasanattempt, r/BlackPeopleTwitter, r/me_irl, r/nextfuckinglevel, r/WatchPeopleDieInside.
What kind of posts do best on r/gadgets?
Of the posts we hold, 100% are link posts and 0% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/gadgets?
Across 1.2K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 22:00 UTC (23.2K avg upvotes), Monday at 11:00 UTC (21.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 14:00 UTC (20.5K 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/gadgets?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/gadgets has 42.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 54 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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