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r/MacOS

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

643.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 9.3K upvotes, which works out to 14 per 1,000 members.

14peak upvotes per 1,000 members
643.2Kmembers
9.3Kbest post
889most comments
884posts 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.

35% 25% 19% 11% 8%
Text 35% Image 25% Question 19% Video 11% Gallery 8% 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.

Help 392 Discussion 130 Developer Saturday 106 Bug 99 Tips & Guides 32 Feature 27 News 27 Creative 24 Nostalgia 21 Apps 18

What the ceiling looks like

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

.DS_Store πŸ˜‚

↑ 9.3K πŸ’¬ 129 image 2025

apple please stop this πŸ’”

↑ 5.9K πŸ’¬ 431 video 2025

macOS still doesn't have a volume mixer. So I built one. Meet FineTune: free, open-source per-app volume control, audio routing, and EQ.

↑ 5.8K πŸ’¬ 527 gallery 2026

It really is like this ...

↑ 5.5K πŸ’¬ 405 image 2025

Woke up to the most beautiful macOS welcome screen

↑ 4.8K πŸ’¬ 170 image 2026

Hot take: The App Store should have an Uninstall button beside Open. It’s 2026.

↑ 4.5K πŸ’¬ 267 image 2026

Bravo Apple, the new Calculator even has a memory leak

↑ 4.4K πŸ’¬ 374 image 2025

Catalina vs. Big Sur

↑ 4.4K πŸ’¬ 240 image 2020

Looks like someone is running VLC on a very old version of macOS

↑ 4.3K πŸ’¬ 53 image 2026

The last decade of my macbook user experience

↑ 3.9K πŸ’¬ 225 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/MacOS, in numbers

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

How many members does r/MacOS have?
r/MacOS has about 643.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 884 of its posts; the biggest reached 9.3K upvotes, which is 14 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/MacOS?
".DS_Store πŸ˜‚" reached 9.3K upvotes and 129 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/MacOS.
What subreddits are similar to r/MacOS?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Yosemite, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/thescoop, r/madisonwi.
What kind of posts do best on r/MacOS?
Of the posts we hold, 35% are text posts and 25% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/MacOS?
Across 884 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 22:00 UTC (3.1K avg upvotes), Thursday at 19:00 UTC (2.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 23:00 UTC (2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. 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/MacOS?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/MacOS has 2.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 319 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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