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Github: social coding. A subreddit to discuss GitHub's platform, products and features. This is not the place to ask about projects that are hosted on GitHub. Not affiliated with GitHub, Inc. Please note that r/git exists and is a better place to ask Git-related questions. Founded 2010 · 213.4K members

209.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 14.7K upvotes, which works out to 70 per 1,000 members.

70peak upvotes per 1,000 members
209.8Kmembers
14.7Kbest post
1.7Kmost comments
200posts 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.

37% 30% 18% 8%
Image 37% Text 30% Question 18% Link 8% Gallery 6% Video 2%

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 24 Showcase 10 Question 7 News / Announcements 5 Tool / Resource 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

Have you thought?

↑ 14.7K 💬 169 image 2025

I am new to GitHub and I have lots to say

↑ 13.5K 💬 6 text 2024

Anybody??

↑ 6K 💬 92 image 2025

My subscription gets cheaper every month thanks to US dollar devaluation

↑ 5.4K 💬 103 image 2025

What the......

↑ 5.2K 💬 84 image 2024

My building's fire drill instructions

↑ 5.2K 💬 58 image 2025

Is this a scam? Someone wants to buy my GitHub handle for 1 million USD.

↑ 4.5K 💬 472 question 2025

Me Fr

↑ 4.3K 💬 38 image 2025

Repo reached 1k stars and a grim banner popped up.

↑ 4.3K 💬 57 image 2025

Hosted by Microsoft btw

↑ 3.6K 💬 73 image 2025

Communities its size

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

r/github, in numbers

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

What is r/github?
r/github ("Github: social coding") describes itself this way: A subreddit to discuss GitHub's platform, products and features. This is not the place to ask about projects that are hosted on GitHub. Not affiliated with GitHub, Inc. Please note that r/git exists and is a better place to ask Git-related questions. It was founded in 2010 and has 213.4K members.
How many members does r/github have?
r/github has about 209.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 200 of its posts; the biggest reached 14.7K upvotes, which is 70 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/github?
"Have you thought?" reached 14.7K upvotes and 169 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/github.
What subreddits are similar to r/github?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/circled, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska.
What kind of posts do best on r/github?
Of the posts we hold, 37% are image posts and 30% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/github?
Across 200 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 22:00 UTC (5.1K avg upvotes), Saturday at 18:00 UTC (3.6K avg upvotes), Monday at 08:00 UTC (2.3K 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/github?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/github has 2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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