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1.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 20.5K upvotes, which works out to 11 per 1,000 members.

11peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.9Mmembers
20.5Kbest post
2.1Kmost comments
200posts 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.

44% 35% 14%
Image 44% Link 35% Text 14% Question 4% Video 4%

The topics it labels

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

Fluff 17 Discussion 11 Event 10 Historical 8 Kernel 6 Privacy 4 Popular Application 3 Linux In The Wild 2 Open Source Organization 2 Hardware 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

VLC has now reached 3 billions downloads and still no toolbar, adware, or other crapware bundled.

↑ 20.5K πŸ’¬ 632 link 2019

Happy Birthday, Linus Torvalds

↑ 18.1K πŸ’¬ 265 image 2025

Today....33 years ago!

↑ 15.6K πŸ’¬ 397 image 2024

I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who's behind the age verification bills. The answer involves …

↑ 15.2K πŸ’¬ 635 text 2026

This is Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the creator of the VLC media player, he refused tens of millions of euros in order to keep VLC ads-free. Merci, Jean!

↑ 15.1K πŸ’¬ 349 image 2017

Goodbye With Love

↑ 14.5K πŸ’¬ 473 text 2019

Should we go dark on the 12th?

↑ 14.4K πŸ’¬ 929 question 2023

If you search for Linux on Duckduckgo the icon changes to a penguin

↑ 13.7K πŸ’¬ 199 image 2025

Happy Birthday Linus Torvalds..!

↑ 13.1K πŸ’¬ 293 image 2024

Pres Elect Trump has setup a website asking how we can make America Great again. Now is your time to write why we should implement a more open-source…

↑ 12.3K πŸ’¬ 469 link 2016

Communities its size

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

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.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/linux, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.