6.9M members. The best post we have captured here reached 45.1K upvotes, which works out to 7 per 1,000 members.
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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.
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Apollo dev posts backend code to Git to disprove Reddit’s claims of scrapping and inefficiency
There’s a reason that programmers always want to throw away old code and start over: they think the old code is a mess. They are probably wrong. The …
YouTube page load is 5x slower in Firefox and Edge than in Chrome because YouTube's Polymer redesign relies on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API only …
Google wins trial against Oracle as jury finds Android is “fair use”
TIL there's a community called "dwitter" where people compose 140 character JavaScript programs that produce interesting visuals
Eye tracking software for sufferers of ALS/MND can cost tens of thousands of dollars, so I've spent 3.5 years of my spare time writing a free & open-…
Cool website that explains algorithms as if they are IKEA instruction manuals
How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
Linus Torvalds: I think somebody inside of Intel needs to really take a long hard look at their CPU's, and actually admit that they have issues inste…
Inventor says Google is patenting work he put in the public domain
Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Start free →Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/programming, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.