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r/nature

233.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 5.9K upvotes, which works out to 25 per 1,000 members.

25peak upvotes per 1,000 members
233.9Kmembers
5.9Kbest post
372most comments
100posts 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.

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What the ceiling looks like

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

Octopus DNA reveals that Antarctic ice sheet collapse is "close"

↑ 5.9K 💬 42 link 2024

‘Alternative’ National Park Service twitter gains 600,000 followers after Trump orders social media blackout - 'You can take our official twitter, bu…

↑ 4.6K 💬 210 link 2017

Killer whales sink yacht after 45-minute attack, Polish tour company says

↑ 4.2K 💬 190 link 2023

Breaking! Notorious Trophy Hunter, Riaan Naude, Was Reportedly Shot & Killed In South Africa

↑ 4.2K 💬 372 link 2022

DNA confirms new 'large predator' living in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth

↑ 4.1K 💬 61 link 2024

Cephalopods Pass Cognitive Test Designed For Human Children

↑ 4.1K 💬 47 link 2025

Orange dwarf cave crocodiles: The crocs that crawled into a cave, ate bats, and started mutating into a new species

↑ 3.6K 💬 42 link 2025

World's oceans close to becoming too acidic to sustain marine life, report says

↑ 3.6K 💬 19 link 2024

Denmark Just Switched to Red Streetlights, Solving a Problem Every Modern City Deals With

↑ 3.1K 💬 219 link 2026

Tourist who threw rock at seal "devastated" at backlash

↑ 2.9K 💬 171 link 2026

Communities its size

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

r/nature, in numbers

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

How many members does r/nature have?
r/nature has about 233.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 100 of its posts; the biggest reached 5.9K upvotes, which is 25 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/nature?
"Octopus DNA reveals that Antarctic ice sheet collapse is "close"" reached 5.9K upvotes and 42 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/nature.
What subreddits are similar to r/nature?
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/nature?
Of the posts we hold, 100% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/nature?
Across 100 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 10:00 UTC (2.6K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 09:00 UTC (2.2K avg upvotes), Friday at 11:00 UTC (1.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/nature?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/nature has 2.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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