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r/GoodNewsUK

102.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 4.9K upvotes, which works out to 48 per 1,000 members.

48peak upvotes per 1,000 members
102.3Kmembers
4.9Kbest post
965most comments
405posts 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.

90%
Link 90% Text 4% Image 3% 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.

Renewables & Energy 64 Discussion 49 Financial and Economic Data 45 Healthcare 43 Logistics & Manufacturing 39 Transport 36 Nature & Rewilding 30 Critical Infrastructure 26 Urban Development & Housing 22 Research & Innovation 21

What the ceiling looks like

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

Starmer confirms ban on cryptocurrency donations and limit on foreign donors

↑ 4.9K 💬 316 link 2026

The UK is currently running on 77% renewables right now!

↑ 4.3K 💬 518 image 2026

Is GDP the best measure of success?

↑ 3.4K 💬 540 image 2026

The UK is actively exporting power right now due to renewable generation!

↑ 3K 💬 334 gallery 2026

PUFFINS ARE BACK! 😍

↑ 2.7K 💬 89 video 2026

UK government department quits X over disinformation

↑ 2.7K 💬 304 link 2026

I built a free app to help people avoid buying a £4 coffee just to use the loo. It went viral, crashed my servers, but led to something genuinely ama…

↑ 2.7K 💬 162 text 2026

In the middle of the gas crisis gas usage in the UK's grid is down to 6.4 % on a weekday. All thanks to "net stupid zero" wind, solar, biomass, nucle…

↑ 2.6K 💬 471 image 2026

Less than 10% of power generated today came from fossil fuels

↑ 2.6K 💬 182 image 2026

NHS England » “Huge moment” as the health service hits 18-week target amid half-a-million waiting list drop

↑ 2.6K 💬 182 link 2026

Communities its size

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

r/GoodNewsUK, in numbers

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

How many members does r/GoodNewsUK have?
r/GoodNewsUK has about 102.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 405 of its posts; the biggest reached 4.9K upvotes, which is 48 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/GoodNewsUK?
"Starmer confirms ban on cryptocurrency donations and limit on foreign donors" reached 4.9K upvotes and 316 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/GoodNewsUK.
What subreddits are similar to r/GoodNewsUK?
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/GoodNewsUK?
Of the posts we hold, 90% are link posts and 4% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/GoodNewsUK?
Across 405 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 21:00 UTC (1.8K avg upvotes), Saturday at 10:00 UTC (1.8K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 07:00 UTC (1.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. 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/GoodNewsUK?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/GoodNewsUK has 2.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 103 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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