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r/opensource

377.5K members. The best post we have captured here reached 2.3K upvotes, which works out to 6 per 1,000 members.

6peak upvotes per 1,000 members
377.5Kmembers
2.3Kbest post
678most comments
100posts 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.

50% 30% 9%
Link 50% Text 30% Question 9% Video 6% Image 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 17 Promotional 14 Community 13 Alternatives 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Large US company came after me for releasing a free open source self-hostable alternative!

↑ 2.3K 💬 185 text 2026

LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs -- "The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded…

↑ 2.1K 💬 63 link 2025

An honest explanation.

↑ 2K 💬 32 image 2019

Open sourced my project less than 2 weeks ago. Today I found a fork where the user stripped my license and attribution to claim it as theirs.

↑ 1.6K 💬 262 text 2026

Update : Large US company came after me for releasing a free open source self-hostable alternative - Resolved in our favor

↑ 1.6K 💬 43 text 2026

Someone forked my open source project, removed the license... and then used it to host illegal F1 streams 🤦

↑ 1.5K 💬 180 text 2025

I made a better when2meet

↑ 1.5K 💬 324 text 2024

Richard Stallman was speaking about free software and privacy at Microsoft HQ in Redmond today, to a packed room of curious employees

↑ 1.5K 💬 121 image 2019

GrapheneOS is being threatened by the French government

↑ 1.3K 💬 70 text 2025

If it is public money, it should be public code as well. Join the campaign to support the use of foss software by governments.

↑ 1.3K 💬 52 text 2020

Communities its size

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

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/opensource, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.