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The New York Times. All things about The New York Times, now with the allowance of off-beat and sometimes spirited news-y discussion. Founded 2009 · 20.8K members · links only

20.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 14.8K upvotes, which works out to 713 per 1,000 members.

713peak upvotes per 1,000 members
20.8Kmembers
14.8Kbest post
3.1Kmost comments
102posts 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.

33% 33% 26%
Image 33% Link 33% Video 26% Text 4% Gallery 2% Question 1%

What the ceiling looks like

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

NYT vs The Onion

↑ 14.8K 💬 707 image 2025

Israeli settlers attack CNN crew and journalists in the occupied West Bank.

↑ 8.9K 💬 1.2K video 2026

NYT reporting reveals JD Vance led secret Situation Room meetings to contain fallout from the Epstein files — with Kash Patel, then-AG Pam Bondi on t…

↑ 6.7K 💬 68 video 2026

Bret Stephens and Ezra Klein are both members of Dialog, Peter Thiel’s invite-only society

↑ 6.6K 💬 394 link 2026

Israel Exposed — War Crimes Archive WARNING: DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK UNLESS YOU ARE OF SOUND MIND. GRAPHIC VIDEOS AND IMAGES BEYOND DESCRIPTION LIE WI…

↑ 6.2K 💬 838 link 2026

did they lay off their fact checkers too?

↑ 5.9K 💬 3.1K image 2025

Palestinian activist Abdullah Shatat collapsed moments after his release from an Israeli jail, where he was held 32 months without charge or trial.

↑ 5.3K 💬 936 video 2026

The UN report on Gaza, titled "'The essence of childhood has been destroyed”: Israel’s deliberate targeting of Palestinian children in the Occupied P…

↑ 5K 💬 357 video 2026

Footage appears to show an Israeli soldier firing a stun grenade into a car full of young Palestinians during a raid on the Qalandiya refugee camp in…

↑ 4.9K 💬 911 video 2026

Trump Calls on Republicans to ‘Take Over’ Voting in 'At Least' 15 States; "This Is Fine" says Journalism

↑ 4.7K 💬 113 link 2026

Communities its size

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

r/nyt, in numbers

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

What is r/nyt?
r/nyt ("The New York Times") describes itself this way: All things about The New York Times, now with the allowance of off-beat and sometimes spirited news-y discussion. It was founded in 2009 and has 20.8K members.
How many members does r/nyt have?
r/nyt has about 20.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 102 of its posts; the biggest reached 14.8K upvotes, which is 713 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/nyt?
"NYT vs The Onion" reached 14.8K upvotes and 707 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/nyt.
What subreddits are similar to r/nyt?
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/nyt?
Of the posts we hold, 33% are image posts and 33% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/nyt?
Across 102 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 21:00 UTC (3.2K avg upvotes), Saturday at 16:00 UTC (2K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 13:00 UTC (1.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/nyt?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/nyt has 2.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 1 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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