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r/powerengineering

8.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 181 upvotes, which works out to 20 per 1,000 members.

20peak upvotes per 1,000 members
8.9Kmembers
181best post
70most comments
300posts 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.

64% 27%
Text 64% Question 27% Link 5% Image 3% Gallery 1% Video 1%

The topics it labels

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

career 24 help 21 discussion 15 school/homework 3

What the ceiling looks like

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

Someone posted this as a positive furnace event on a large coal boiler

↑ 181 πŸ’¬ 13 video 2026

300 jobs lost as Canfor closes Northwood Pulp Mill in Prince George - Pulp and Paper is dead in Canada. If you work at one of the plants look for oth…

↑ 83 πŸ’¬ 38 link 2026

LMAO, this guy wants us to work for BC minimum wage.

↑ 71 πŸ’¬ 11 image 2026

Pan global books are free now

↑ 64 πŸ’¬ 13 text 2026

A welder got bolted inside a running plant's boiler. This is why permits and isolation matter.

↑ 34 πŸ’¬ 34 text 2026

WTF

↑ 32 πŸ’¬ 10 gallery 2026

Recent graduate from sait struggling to get a job

↑ 29 πŸ’¬ 30 text 2026

Feeling passionless with the profession.

↑ 24 πŸ’¬ 38 text 2026

Panglobal Textbook Digital Copies

↑ 22 πŸ’¬ 12 text 2026

Free access to 2nd class power engineering plus all reference code

↑ 21 πŸ’¬ 30 text 2026

Communities its size

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

r/powerengineering, in numbers

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

How many members does r/powerengineering have?
r/powerengineering has about 8.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 181 upvotes, which is 20 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/powerengineering?
"Someone posted this as a positive furnace event on a large coal boiler" reached 181 upvotes and 13 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/powerengineering.
What subreddits are similar to r/powerengineering?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/GhostMesh48, r/FinalRoundAI, r/teslastockholders, r/ExploreFortMyers, r/TheMirrorCult, r/CzechCoconutCommunity.
What kind of posts do best on r/powerengineering?
Of the posts we hold, 64% are text posts and 27% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/powerengineering?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 20:00 UTC (14 avg upvotes), Thursday at 14:00 UTC (12 avg upvotes), Monday at 04:00 UTC (10 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/powerengineering?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/powerengineering has 13 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 54 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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