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204.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 1.2K upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.

6peak upvotes per 1,000 members
204.9Kmembers
1.2Kbest post
327most comments
303posts 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.

42% 17% 16% 15%
Text 42% Image 17% Link 16% Question 15% Video 6% Gallery 5%

The topics it labels

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

Discussion 127 HELP REQUESTED 91 NEWS 31 Political 13 History 9 Shitpost 8 Shouldn't have to ask 7 MEME 6 A Happy Sailor 2 OP is in the Navy 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

USS Abraham Lincoln pulling into Thailand

↑ 1.2K πŸ’¬ 327 gallery 2026

Saw this and had to share 🀣

↑ 1.1K πŸ’¬ 73 image 2026

Category 5 Liberty Call about to make landfall in Thailand

↑ 1K πŸ’¬ 194 image 2026

Admiral James Paparo was asked this afternoon by a reporter if he would follow an order from potus to invade Canada:

↑ 756 πŸ’¬ 191 video 2026

From being a failure as a non-attained SWO (3 years ago) to now.. I have earned my 2nd warfare device in the supply corps officer community.

↑ 736 πŸ’¬ 95 image 2026

Ban on photos and videos of Sailors on liberty in Thailand.

↑ 731 πŸ’¬ 157 text 2026

And now a word from the Commanding Officer…

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I wonder what prompted him to say this tonight

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I’m sure there’s a lot of mixed feelings right now now

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Drunken brawl in Thailand sends two USS Abraham Lincoln service members back to ship

↑ 579 πŸ’¬ 157 link 2026

Communities its size

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

r/navy, in numbers

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

How many members does r/navy have?
r/navy has about 204.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 303 of its posts; the biggest reached 1.2K upvotes, which is 6 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/navy?
"USS Abraham Lincoln pulling into Thailand" reached 1.2K upvotes and 327 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/navy.
What subreddits are similar to r/navy?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/circled, r/International, r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus.
What kind of posts do best on r/navy?
Of the posts we hold, 42% are text posts and 17% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/navy?
Across 303 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 23:00 UTC (427 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 10:00 UTC (368 avg upvotes), Thursday at 01:00 UTC (309 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/navy?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/navy has 397 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 303 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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