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r/NewsThread

/r/NewsThread is a Simple News Subreddit for all. Founded 2025 · 31.4K members · links only

34.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 24.6K upvotes, which works out to 718 per 1,000 members.

718peak upvotes per 1,000 members
34.2Kmembers
24.6Kbest post
1.9Kmost comments
1.1Kposts 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.

97%
Link 97% Video 3%

The topics it labels

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

Political News 233 Non-political News 54 may contain soft-propaganda 8 Behind Soft Paywall 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

Melania humiliated as first lady of China 'speaks better English' than her

↑ 24.6K 💬 1.6K link 2026

FAR-RIGHT MILITIAS WERE INFILTRATED BY A MOLE WHO LEAKED OVER 100GB OF INTERNAL DATA

↑ 22.2K 💬 1.5K link 2026

Trump branded 'disgrace' after 'appearing to sleep' at 9/11 service at Pentagon

↑ 21.8K 💬 507 link 2026

71% of Americans Say the U.S. Is Spiraling Out of Control Under Trump

↑ 20.1K 💬 789 link 2026

Sleepy Trump 'poos himself' and 'makes it smell crazy' at friend's funeral

↑ 19.7K 💬 465 link 2026

71 percent of Americans say US is "out of control" under Trump

↑ 18.5K 💬 1.1K link 2026

Elon Musk Confronted With List of People He's Killed, Including Children

↑ 17.3K 💬 1.4K link 2026

Elon Musk is Running a Fake Voter Registration Site Designed to Steal and Sell Data

↑ 16.6K 💬 441 link 2026

Fmr. Special Counsel Jack Smith testifies to the Senate: "President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation."

↑ 16.5K 💬 373 link 2026

Republicans Face Growing Demands To Oust Mitch McConnell After He Misses 40 Straight Days of Senate Votes

↑ 15.8K 💬 211 link 2026

Communities its size

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

r/NewsThread, in numbers

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

What is r/NewsThread?
r/NewsThread describes itself this way: /r/NewsThread is a Simple News Subreddit for all. It was founded in 2025 and has 31.4K members.
How many members does r/NewsThread have?
r/NewsThread has about 34.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.1K of its posts; the biggest reached 24.6K upvotes, which is 718 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/NewsThread?
"Melania humiliated as first lady of China 'speaks better English' than her" reached 24.6K upvotes and 1.6K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/NewsThread.
What subreddits are similar to r/NewsThread?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/InvictaSolaris.
What kind of posts do best on r/NewsThread?
Of the posts we hold, 97% are link posts and 3% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/NewsThread?
Across 1.1K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 16:00 UTC (5.7K avg upvotes), Thursday at 00:00 UTC (5K avg upvotes), Thursday at 22:00 UTC (3.9K 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/NewsThread?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/NewsThread has 9.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 386 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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