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The place for news articles about current events in the United States and the rest of the world. Discuss it all here. Founded 2008 · 31.6M members · links only

31.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 365.1K upvotes, which works out to 12 per 1,000 members.

12peak upvotes per 1,000 members
31.6Mmembers
365.1Kbest post
46.3Kmost comments
1.2Kposts 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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The topics it labels

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

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What the ceiling looks like

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

Joe Biden elected president of the United States

↑ 365.1K 💬 28.1K link 2020

Chauvin found guilty of murder, manslaughter in George Floyd's death

↑ 250.3K 💬 27.5K link 2021

President Donald Trump says he has tested positive for coronavirus

↑ 233.3K 💬 33K link 2020

Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout After the Company Banned a Gamer for Pro-Hong Kong Views

↑ 226.3K 💬 9.4K link 2019

Trump has left the White House for the last time as President

↑ 222.6K 💬 11.6K link 2021

Kobe Bryant killed in helicopter crash in California

↑ 213.7K 💬 20.1K link 2020

'Jeopardy' host Alex Trebek dies at 80 due to pancreatic cancer

↑ 200.8K 💬 5.3K link 2020

Queen Elizabeth II, has died

↑ 191.4K 💬 12.6K link 2022

Scientist Stephen Hawking has died aged 76

↑ 188.2K 💬 6.8K link 2018

Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy more consistent with homicidal strangulation than suicide, Dr. Michael Baden reveals

↑ 186.2K 💬 9.8K link 2019

Communities its size

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

r/news, in numbers

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

What is r/news?
r/news describes itself this way: The place for news articles about current events in the United States and the rest of the world. Discuss it all here. It was founded in 2008 and has 31.6M members.
How many members does r/news have?
r/news has about 31.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.2K of its posts; the biggest reached 365.1K upvotes, which is 12 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/news?
"Joe Biden elected president of the United States" reached 365.1K upvotes and 28.1K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/news.
What subreddits are similar to r/news?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/me_irl, r/nextfuckinglevel, r/WatchPeopleDieInside, r/oddlysatisfying, r/MadeMeSmile, r/BeAmazed.
What kind of posts do best on r/news?
Of the posts we hold, 100% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/news?
Across 1.2K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 03:00 UTC (55.8K avg upvotes), Thursday at 08:00 UTC (54.5K avg upvotes), Friday at 00:00 UTC (53K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. 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/news?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/news has 165.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 367 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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