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r/metaldetecting

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

353.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 6.6K upvotes, which works out to 19 per 1,000 members.

19peak upvotes per 1,000 members
353.6Kmembers
6.6Kbest post
494most comments
307posts 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.

62% 25%
Gallery 62% Image 25% Text 5% Question 4% Link 3% Video 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.

Show & Tell 135 ID Request 121 Other 15 Gear Question 14 How do I...? 10 Cleaning Finds 7 Historical conjecture 3 Possible Arti-Faking 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

I just did it...πŸ₯Ή

↑ 6.6K πŸ’¬ 289 gallery 2026

Amazing find in Denmark! πŸ”₯

↑ 5.2K πŸ’¬ 214 gallery 2026

Found these prospecting out in the desert by Ridgecrest California.

↑ 3.8K πŸ’¬ 135 gallery 2026

Bronze age sword, with gold!

↑ 3.7K πŸ’¬ 255 gallery 2026

Anyone ever come across something like this?

↑ 3.5K πŸ’¬ 494 gallery 2026

Finally cleaned and preserved! 800-year-old medieval finds from a forgotten site deep in the mountains

↑ 1.7K πŸ’¬ 66 gallery 2026

Live from the field, 5 silver coins today!

↑ 1.5K πŸ’¬ 38 image 2026

The brooch I found today, early 14th century. Isn’t she lovely?

↑ 1.5K πŸ’¬ 45 gallery 2026

A Soviet wallet lost around 1934-1935.

↑ 1.2K πŸ’¬ 33 image 2026

First gold nugget ever!

↑ 1K πŸ’¬ 41 gallery 2026

Communities its size

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

r/metaldetecting, in numbers

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

How many members does r/metaldetecting have?
r/metaldetecting has about 353.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 307 of its posts; the biggest reached 6.6K upvotes, which is 19 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/metaldetecting?
"I just did it...πŸ₯Ή" reached 6.6K upvotes and 289 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/metaldetecting.
What subreddits are similar to r/metaldetecting?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/metaldetecting?
Of the posts we hold, 62% are gallery posts and 25% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/metaldetecting?
Across 307 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 01:00 UTC (928 avg upvotes), Sunday at 17:00 UTC (723 avg upvotes), Saturday at 17:00 UTC (641 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. 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/metaldetecting?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/metaldetecting has 468 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/metaldetecting, 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.