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r/KerbalSpaceProgram

Launching Space Frogs since 2011... for SCIENCE!. The Kerbal Space Program subreddit. For all your gaming related, space exploration needs. https://kerbalspaceprogram.com Founded 2011 · 1.5M members

1.5M members. The best post we have captured here reached 22.4K upvotes, which works out to 15 per 1,000 members.

15peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.5Mmembers
22.4Kbest post
2.8Kmost comments
113posts 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.

54% 38%
Video 54% Image 38% Text 4% Link 2% Gallery 2% Question 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.

Image 36 GIF 25 KSP 1 Image/Video 16 Video 8 Dev Post 3 Discussion 2 Update 2 Holy shit 1 Meta 1 Recreation 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Matt Lowne's videos all Copyright claimed, even though the music "Dream" is one of Youtube studio's copyright free music.

↑ 22.4K 💬 856 image 2019

Thanks for all the great advice on my last post! I listened, redesigned from scratch and finally made it to orbit!

↑ 21.5K 💬 752 video 2026

Net Neutrality On Tylo

↑ 21.3K 💬 246 image 2017

The newly-formed Australian Space Agency launches its first spacecraft

↑ 20.1K 💬 345 video 2017

Had this one been done yet?

↑ 19.7K 💬 291 image 2019

Saw this on Steam. Why is no one talking about it?

↑ 18.8K 💬 1.4K image 2018

Elon, this is what "going Kerbal" REALLY means!

↑ 16.3K 💬 291 video 2017

Unlimited Power!

↑ 16.3K 💬 368 video 2021

1.0 is out!

↑ 15.7K 💬 1.2K link 2015

This is a cry for help

↑ 15.5K 💬 248 image 2020

Communities its size

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

r/KerbalSpaceProgram, in numbers

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

What is r/KerbalSpaceProgram?
r/KerbalSpaceProgram ("Launching Space Frogs since 2011... for SCIENCE!") describes itself this way: The Kerbal Space Program subreddit. For all your gaming related, space exploration needs. https://kerbalspaceprogram.com. It was founded in 2011 and has 1.5M members.
How many members does r/KerbalSpaceProgram have?
r/KerbalSpaceProgram has about 1.5M members. ViralHunt has tracked 113 of its posts; the biggest reached 22.4K upvotes, which is 15 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/KerbalSpaceProgram?
"Matt Lowne's videos all Copyright claimed, even though the music "Dream" is one of Youtube studio's copyright free music." reached 22.4K upvotes and 856 comments in 2019, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/KerbalSpaceProgram.
What subreddits are similar to r/KerbalSpaceProgram?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota.
What kind of posts do best on r/KerbalSpaceProgram?
Of the posts we hold, 54% are video posts and 38% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/KerbalSpaceProgram?
Across 113 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 11:00 UTC (13.6K avg upvotes), Monday at 13:00 UTC (12.6K avg upvotes), Sunday at 13:00 UTC (11.2K 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/KerbalSpaceProgram?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/KerbalSpaceProgram has 12.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 7 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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