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r/HomeImprovement

The Hivemind Improving Homes. Homeowners improving our homes. **Only text postings are allowed here.** Images need to be uploaded through sites like [imgur.com](http://www.imgur.com) and the links shared in the text of your post. YOU MUST have minimum karma to participate in the sub, if not submit here: https://diy.stackexchange.com/ Founded 2008 · 4.8M members · text posts only

4.8M members. The best post we have captured here reached 81.5K upvotes, which works out to 17 per 1,000 members.

17peak upvotes per 1,000 members
4.8Mmembers
81.5Kbest post
2.8Kmost comments
1.2Kposts 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.

58% 42%
Text 58% Question 42%

What the ceiling looks like

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

Previous owner left a binder in the garage. I thought it was junk. It was not

↑ 81.5K 💬 1.4K text 2026

Will you please stay the hell home....?

↑ 8.8K 💬 917 question 2020

Home Depot has the single worst website of any major retailer.

↑ 4.2K 💬 752 text 2026

How is anyone affording renovations these days? Getting $80, 90, 110k quotes to reno kitchen.

↑ 3.5K 💬 1.8K question 2026

/r/homeimprovement will be going dark beginning June 12 in protest against Reddit's API changes which will kill 3rd party apps.

↑ 3.2K 💬 4 text 2023

Why does a tiny bathroom remodel cost as much as a car now? Am I missing something? 😅

↑ 2.5K 💬 1.6K question 2026

I feel sick every time I shower at home, but nowhere else.

↑ 2.4K 💬 879 text 2026

Andersen quoted $26,000 for new front door. Is that crazy?

↑ 2.3K 💬 2.8K question 2026

After years in construction/remodels I made a list of things that should never be accepted by a homeowner

↑ 2K 💬 214 text 2026

Turned down a quote for the first time and it didn’t go well. Any advice?

↑ 1.8K 💬 467 question 2026

Communities its size

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

r/HomeImprovement, in numbers

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

What is r/HomeImprovement?
r/HomeImprovement ("The Hivemind Improving Homes") describes itself this way: Homeowners improving our homes. **Only text postings are allowed here.** Images need to be uploaded through sites like [imgur.com](http://www.imgur.com) and the links shared in the text of your post. YOU MUST have minimum karma to participate in the sub, if not submit here: https://diy.stackexchange.com/. It was founded in 2008 and has 4.8M members.
How many members does r/HomeImprovement have?
r/HomeImprovement has about 4.8M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.2K of its posts; the biggest reached 81.5K upvotes, which is 17 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/HomeImprovement?
"Previous owner left a binder in the garage. I thought it was junk. It was not" reached 81.5K upvotes and 1.4K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/HomeImprovement.
What subreddits are similar to r/HomeImprovement?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/awfuleverything, r/interesting, r/JustGuysBeingDudes, r/freefolk, r/awesome.
What kind of posts do best on r/HomeImprovement?
Of the posts we hold, 58% are text posts and 42% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/HomeImprovement?
Across 1.2K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 12:00 UTC (9.1K avg upvotes), Thursday at 13:00 UTC (1K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 14:00 UTC (840 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/HomeImprovement?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/HomeImprovement has 1.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 301 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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