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140K members. The best post we have captured here reached 4.4K upvotes, which works out to 32 per 1,000 members.

32peak upvotes per 1,000 members
140Kmembers
4.4Kbest post
338most comments
403posts 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.

23% 20% 18% 17% 13% 10%
Text 23% Image 20% Link 18% Video 17% Question 13% Gallery 10%

The topics it labels

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

:question: Question 129 :fluff: Fluff 62 :app-white: Apps 48 :extension-white: Extensions 47 :opinion-white: Opinion 32 :platform-white: Platform 27 :project-white: Community 22 :info-white: LLM Assisted 8 :guide-white: Guide 8 :project-white: Project 7

What the ceiling looks like

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

Linus Torvalds still uses Fedora with Gnome

↑ 4.4K 💬 270 image 2025

What is this?

↑ 1.3K 💬 137 video 2024

GNOME But Make It Windows

↑ 1.3K 💬 338 image 2026

Trying to make a modern-looking icon theme that feels cohesive

↑ 1.2K 💬 140 gallery 2026

I wanted to indulge in nostalgia so I created this useless 3D desktop cube extension :)

↑ 1.1K 💬 99 video 2021

GNOME 49 changes fractional scaling to scales that divide perfectly into the display resolution. This should result in better font rendering for high…

↑ 978 💬 81 image 2025

Designed a wallet app for GNOME, what do you think?

↑ 972 💬 135 image 2024

I'll be honest, I like doing this a bit too much (GNOME 49 new background!)

↑ 916 💬 55 video 2025

Burn-My-Windows adds three new effects and a random mode!

↑ 867 💬 63 video 2022

Steam deck's Desktop mode should've been Gnome

↑ 862 💬 273 video 2024

Communities its size

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

r/gnome, in numbers

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

How many members does r/gnome have?
r/gnome has about 140K members. ViralHunt has tracked 403 of its posts; the biggest reached 4.4K upvotes, which is 32 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/gnome?
"Linus Torvalds still uses Fedora with Gnome" reached 4.4K upvotes and 270 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/gnome.
What subreddits are similar to r/gnome?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/gnome?
Of the posts we hold, 23% are text posts and 20% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/gnome?
Across 403 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 07:00 UTC (1.2K avg upvotes), Monday at 19:00 UTC (524 avg upvotes), Monday at 09:00 UTC (517 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. 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/gnome?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/gnome has 787 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 149 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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