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r/nytimes

The New York Times. Unofficial subreddit to share, highlight, discuss and comment upon NYTimes content, features, staff and management. Gift links encouraged. Not affiliated with The New York Times Company. Founded 2006 · 68.4K members · links only

67.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 26.1K upvotes, which works out to 385 per 1,000 members.

385peak upvotes per 1,000 members
67.8Kmembers
26.1Kbest post
4Kmost comments
194posts 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.

91%
Link 91% Text 6% Question 2% Image 2%

The topics it labels

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

Politics - Flaired Commenters Only 27 Discussion - Flaired Commenters Only 11 Politics 6 U.S. 6 Opinion 4 New York 4 Live - Flaired Commenters Only 4 Business 4 Health 2 Opinion - Flaired Commenters Only 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

Bernie Sanders Says Democrats Have Lost Their Way

↑ 26.1K 💬 3.9K link 2024

Why is NYT covering the Grammy Awards but ignored today's massive LA protest a few minutes from the Grammy Awards?

↑ 14.3K 💬 221 question 2025

NYTimes silent about 100,000 people marching against fascism

↑ 14.2K 💬 170 text 2025

Trump Says This Will be His Last Campaign

↑ 14.1K 💬 4K link 2024

Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing

↑ 11.2K 💬 754 link 2024

Trump Killed a Major Report on Nature. They’re Trying to Publish It Anyway.

↑ 11.1K 💬 96 link 2025

Russia Secretly Worms Its Way Into America’s Conservative Media

↑ 10.4K 💬 972 link 2024

Trump Promised to Release His Medical Records. He Still Won’t Do It.

↑ 9.7K 💬 779 link 2024

NYTimes runs story about how Trump is making young conservatives sexy. That's it pholks, they're cooked.

↑ 9.5K 💬 860 text 2025

The Abortion Ban Backlash Is Starting to Freak Out Republicans

↑ 9.4K 💬 2K link 2023

Communities its size

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

r/nytimes, in numbers

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

What is r/nytimes?
r/nytimes ("The New York Times") describes itself this way: Unofficial subreddit to share, highlight, discuss and comment upon NYTimes content, features, staff and management. Gift links encouraged. Not affiliated with The New York Times Company. It was founded in 2006 and has 68.4K members.
How many members does r/nytimes have?
r/nytimes has about 67.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 194 of its posts; the biggest reached 26.1K upvotes, which is 385 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/nytimes?
"Bernie Sanders Says Democrats Have Lost Their Way" reached 26.1K upvotes and 3.9K comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/nytimes.
What subreddits are similar to r/nytimes?
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/nytimes?
Of the posts we hold, 91% are link posts and 6% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/nytimes?
Across 194 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 20:00 UTC (10.2K avg upvotes), Monday at 18:00 UTC (5.2K avg upvotes), Friday at 14:00 UTC (4.3K 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/nytimes?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/nytimes has 5.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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