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r/macrophotography

68.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 1.1K upvotes, which works out to 16 per 1,000 members.

16peak upvotes per 1,000 members
68.6Kmembers
1.1Kbest post
70most comments
300posts 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.

46% 43%
Gallery 46% Image 43% Text 4% Link 3% Video 2% Question 1%

What the ceiling looks like

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

A millipede

↑ 1.1K 💬 20 gallery 2026

Fragile Beauty in Macro

↑ 971 💬 17 image 2026

A few insects I met this morning

↑ 533 💬 16 gallery 2026

Praying mantis on my balcony

↑ 458 💬 12 image 2026

A few grown dwarf jumping spiders

↑ 449 💬 3 gallery 2026

A green viper

↑ 448 💬 18 gallery 2026

Rose drop refraction

↑ 437 💬 17 image 2026

Fencepost jumper

↑ 421 💬 10 gallery 2026

Ant!

↑ 421 💬 18 gallery 2026

Slime mold at 10x

↑ 402 💬 25 gallery 2026

Communities its size

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

r/macrophotography, in numbers

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

How many members does r/macrophotography have?
r/macrophotography has about 68.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 1.1K upvotes, which is 16 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/macrophotography?
"A millipede" reached 1.1K upvotes and 20 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/macrophotography.
What subreddits are similar to r/macrophotography?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/FreeFolkNation, r/InvictaSolaris, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/loveland.
What kind of posts do best on r/macrophotography?
Of the posts we hold, 46% are gallery posts and 43% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/macrophotography?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 01:00 UTC (285 avg upvotes), Thursday at 19:00 UTC (182 avg upvotes), Friday at 20:00 UTC (166 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/macrophotography?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/macrophotography has 223 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 300 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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