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r/howislivingthere

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

737.4K members. The best post we have captured here reached 5.5K upvotes, which works out to 7 per 1,000 members.

7peak upvotes per 1,000 members
737.4Kmembers
5.5Kbest post
961most comments
611posts 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.

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Image 89% Gallery 10% Text 1% Link 1%

The topics it labels

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

North America :continent_north_america: 290 Europe :continent_europe: 123 Asia :continent_asia: 82 Africa :continent_africa: 28 South America :continent_south_america: 27 AMA ❓ 21 Australia & Oceania :continent_australia: 19 General (no specific continent) :earth: 17 Attempted Humor (Sundays Only) 2 Antarctica :continent_antartica: 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

I lived all over the USA the last 6 years after I retired and sold my house. I generally stay a week, drive 2 hours and stay a week. Winter stays are…

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What life was like in New York after 9/11

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What is it like to live here?

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How is living on this peninsula in Mauretania/Western Sahara?

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Communities its size

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

r/howislivingthere, in numbers

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

How many members does r/howislivingthere have?
r/howislivingthere has about 737.4K members. ViralHunt has tracked 611 of its posts; the biggest reached 5.5K upvotes, which is 7 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/howislivingthere?
"I lived all over the USA the last 6 years after I retired and sold my house. I generally stay a week, drive 2 hours and stay a week. Winter " reached 5.5K upvotes and 961 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/howislivingthere.
What subreddits are similar to r/howislivingthere?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/scotus, r/Archaeology.
What kind of posts do best on r/howislivingthere?
Of the posts we hold, 89% are image posts and 10% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/howislivingthere?
Across 611 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 19:00 UTC (900 avg upvotes), Tuesday at 17:00 UTC (585 avg upvotes), Friday at 22:00 UTC (584 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/howislivingthere?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/howislivingthere has 826 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/howislivingthere, 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.