← All communities
Reddit community

r/greatdanes

Go ahead. Call me Marmaduke one more time.. A subreddit for the owners and aficionados of the giantest, goofiest dog breed. Founded 2011 · 102.2K members

102.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 12.8K upvotes, which works out to 125 per 1,000 members.

125peak upvotes per 1,000 members
102.3Kmembers
12.8Kbest post
3.4Kmost comments
402posts we track

Open r/greatdanes on Reddit ↗

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.

40% 37% 14%
Image 40% Gallery 37% Video 14% Text 7% Question 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.

Showing Off 192 Q and Maybe Some A’s 55 Dane Discussions 47 New Owner 33 Grief/In Memory 33 Anecdotes 16 ADOPT ME 3

What the ceiling looks like

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

Built a 3' extension on the bed. He uses it at night, but as soon as I get up...

↑ 12.8K 💬 308 video 2023

How it started vs how it’s going

↑ 8.7K 💬 42 gallery 2025

Tonight is the last night with our boy

↑ 8.3K 💬 230 gallery 2025

We just adopted these two bonded Danes

↑ 8K 💬 178 gallery 2025

Someone knows what this is

↑ 6.7K 💬 934 image 2024

I lost my girl to bloat last night

↑ 6.2K 💬 358 gallery 2025

I need a strong unique name for him like "Odin"

↑ 5.7K 💬 3.4K gallery 2025

Ten years later… still my best friend.

↑ 5.4K 💬 110 gallery 2025

Eleanor 2015-2025 🌈

↑ 5.1K 💬 87 gallery 2025

Know nothing about Great Danes, impulse bought one today in a parking lot.

↑ 4.9K 💬 560 image 2024

Communities its size

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

r/greatdanes, in numbers

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

What is r/greatdanes?
r/greatdanes ("Go ahead. Call me Marmaduke one more time.") describes itself this way: A subreddit for the owners and aficionados of the giantest, goofiest dog breed. It was founded in 2011 and has 102.2K members.
How many members does r/greatdanes have?
r/greatdanes has about 102.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 402 of its posts; the biggest reached 12.8K upvotes, which is 125 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/greatdanes?
"Built a 3' extension on the bed. He uses it at night, but as soon as I get up..." reached 12.8K upvotes and 308 comments in 2023, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/greatdanes.
What subreddits are similar to r/greatdanes?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/greatdanes?
Of the posts we hold, 40% are image posts and 37% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/greatdanes?
Across 402 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 16:00 UTC (3.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 02:00 UTC (3.5K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 23:00 UTC (3.4K 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/greatdanes?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/greatdanes has 3.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 107 posts from it in the last 30 days.

See what is climbing here before you write

ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.

Start free →

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