10.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 2.3K upvotes, which works out to 221 per 1,000 members.
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.
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
The Milky Way over Iowa fields
The Milky Way Core Above the Krnčica Mountain Range [OC] (1955x2200)
The 2026 Milky Way Photographer of the Year has just been published
The comet Lemmon
Lights on the Horizon
From Maui, Hawai’i
Under Cygnus, Above the Fog - Mt. Slatnik, Slovenia (OC)(2200x2871)
A rugged, wildly broken ridge line slowly meeting the cosmos. (OC)(1270x2250)
Milky Way Oppo X8 Ultra
Milky Way over Franconia Ridge, NH 20-5-26
Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.
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Start free →Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/milkyway, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.