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r/goodnews

Good News. Welcome to r/goodnews! A place to share uplifting, wholesome, and inspiring news from around the world. Whether it’s a local act of kindness, a medical breakthrough, political positivity personal news, or a feel-good moment that restored your faith in humanity if it made you smile, it belongs here. Founded 2008 · 504.2K members

505.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 171.5K upvotes, which works out to 339 per 1,000 members.

339peak upvotes per 1,000 members
505.6Kmembers
171.5Kbest post
7.3Kmost comments
808posts 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.

86%
Link 86% Video 7% Text 3% Image 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.

Positive News 👉🏼♥️ 398 Political positivity 📈 271 Other 16 Personal News 📰 13 Feel-good news 📰 1 question 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Fed head Powell has taken to calling out Trump lies in real time

↑ 171.5K 💬 7.3K video 2025

Canada announces it will build a coalition of countries who share their values to build their economy and trade opportunities and will exclude the Un…

↑ 136K 💬 7.3K video 2025

LAFD showing support for protestors!

↑ 127.5K 💬 3.9K video 2025

The No Kings protest against the Trump administration in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

↑ 119.5K 💬 2.2K video 2025

The Senate has just voted to CANCEL Trump's tariffs on Canada by a vote of 51-48.

↑ 113.9K 💬 3.6K video 2025

Zohran Mamdani wins the NYC Mayoral Primary!

↑ 99.8K 💬 5.1K image 2025

Trump in Full Panic, Claims All Epstein Files Are Fake, Created by Obama

↑ 97.5K 💬 4.8K link 2025

Chicago PD walked with the people and escorted them during the No Kings protest.

↑ 94.9K 💬 1.8K video 2025

Trump posts fat JD Vance meme sparking rumor they've fallen out.

↑ 91.8K 💬 4.7K image 2025

Trump being drowned out by bagpipes

↑ 89.2K 💬 3.1K video 2025

Communities its size

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

r/goodnews, in numbers

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

What is r/goodnews?
r/goodnews ("Good News") describes itself this way: Welcome to r/goodnews! A place to share uplifting, wholesome, and inspiring news from around the world. Whether it’s a local act of kindness, a medical breakthrough, political positivity personal news, or a feel-good moment that restored your faith in humanity if it made you smile, it belongs here. It was founded in 2008 and has 504.2K members.
How many members does r/goodnews have?
r/goodnews has about 505.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 808 of its posts; the biggest reached 171.5K upvotes, which is 339 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/goodnews?
"Fed head Powell has taken to calling out Trump lies in real time" reached 171.5K upvotes and 7.3K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/goodnews.
What subreddits are similar to r/goodnews?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/alaska, r/popculture, r/BlueskySkeets, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite.
What kind of posts do best on r/goodnews?
Of the posts we hold, 86% are link posts and 7% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/goodnews?
Across 808 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 19:00 UTC (46.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 02:00 UTC (38.2K avg upvotes), Saturday at 19:00 UTC (34.1K 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/goodnews?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/goodnews has 70.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 329 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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