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Melbourne, Australia: Local news and other tidbits. A subreddit to chat about Melbourne, the greatest city in Australia Founded 2008 · 1.1M members

1.1M members. The best post we have captured here reached 51.8K upvotes, which works out to 48 per 1,000 members.

48peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.1Mmembers
51.8Kbest post
3.2Kmost comments
856posts 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.

31% 23% 21% 14%
Text 31% Image 23% Question 21% Link 14% Gallery 7% Video 3%

The topics it labels

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

THDG Need Help 251 Politics 81 Om nom nom 68 Not On My Smashed Avo 63 Photography 62 Serious News 48 Light and Fluffy News 43 Real estate/Renting 33 Roads 31 Things That Go Ding (Public Transport) 30

What the ceiling looks like

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

Unbelievable. The effects of recent events and reduced traffic on the Yarra is so much that Liopleurodons have actually come back from the Late Juras…

↑ 51.8K 💬 670 image 2020

Sold my house today and the agents hate me

↑ 38K 💬 2.2K text 2024

So nice when people offer their services during this hard time

↑ 26.5K 💬 344 image 2020

You wouldn't, would you

↑ 22.2K 💬 533 image 2023

Melbourne airport has a very special flight tonight

↑ 21.8K 💬 203 image 2017

Dude, same

↑ 20.7K 💬 855 image 2021

Massachusetts compared to Victoria

↑ 18.8K 💬 1.6K image 2020

On a scorching hot day, this really helps. Thanks Woolies.

↑ 16K 💬 574 image 2026

Footage from 2020, shows exactly why you should never try to outrun a bushfire.

↑ 14.7K 💬 1.3K video 2026

I had no idea that the rivalry between Sydney and Melbourne was this bad

↑ 14.1K 💬 335 image 2022

Communities its size

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

r/melbourne, in numbers

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

What is r/melbourne?
r/melbourne ("Melbourne, Australia: Local news and other tidbits") describes itself this way: A subreddit to chat about Melbourne, the greatest city in Australia. It was founded in 2008 and has 1.1M members.
How many members does r/melbourne have?
r/melbourne has about 1.1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 856 of its posts; the biggest reached 51.8K upvotes, which is 48 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/melbourne?
"Unbelievable. The effects of recent events and reduced traffic on the Yarra is so much that Liopleurodons have actually come back from the L" reached 51.8K upvotes and 670 comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/melbourne.
What subreddits are similar to r/melbourne?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois, r/PastAndPresentPics.
What kind of posts do best on r/melbourne?
Of the posts we hold, 31% are text posts and 23% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/melbourne?
Across 856 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 10:00 UTC (10.9K avg upvotes), Monday at 08:00 UTC (8.2K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 02:00 UTC (4.6K 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/melbourne?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/melbourne has 11K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 302 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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