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425.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 3.9K upvotes, which works out to 9 per 1,000 members.

9peak upvotes per 1,000 members
425.1Kmembers
3.9Kbest post
685most comments
836posts 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.

40% 29% 14% 13%
Text 40% Link 29% Question 14% Image 13% Video 3%

The topics it labels

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

🛠️ project 303 🙋 seeking help & advice 91 🎙️ discussion 45 🧠 educational 42 🗞️ news 26 📸 media 20 📡 official blog 14 🙋 questions megathread 6 📅 this week in rust 6 🐝 activity megathread 6

What the ceiling looks like

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

[Media] I built my first rust app

↑ 3.9K 💬 220 image 2024

[Media] Cute Compiler Easter Egg

↑ 2.6K 💬 79 image 2022

SpaceX about the Rust Programming Language!

↑ 2.5K 💬 156 image 2021

Ownership Concept Diagram

↑ 2.5K 💬 88 image 2021

Lessons learned after 3 years of fulltime Rust game development, and why we're leaving Rust behind

↑ 2.4K 💬 487 link 2024

The end of the kernel Rust experiment: "The consensus among the assembled developers [at the Linux Maintainer Summit] is that Rust in the kernel is n…

↑ 2.4K 💬 119 link 2025

Linus Torvalds: Rust will go into Linux 6.1

↑ 2.2K 💬 148 link 2022

Goodbye, Rust. I wish you success but I'm back to C++ (sorry, it is a rant)

↑ 2.2K 💬 533 text 2024

[Media] My wife made me cute little Ferris to encourage my goal of learning Rust this year!

↑ 2.2K 💬 70 image 2023

I've tested Rust HTTP clients again, found over 50 bugs

↑ 2.2K 💬 68 text 2021

Communities its size

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

r/rust, in numbers

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

How many members does r/rust have?
r/rust has about 425.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 836 of its posts; the biggest reached 3.9K upvotes, which is 9 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/rust?
"[Media] I built my first rust app" reached 3.9K upvotes and 220 comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/rust.
What subreddits are similar to r/rust?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/rust?
Of the posts we hold, 40% are text posts and 29% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/rust?
Across 836 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 10:00 UTC (1.4K avg upvotes), Saturday at 07:00 UTC (809 avg upvotes), Saturday at 13:00 UTC (676 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. 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/rust?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/rust has 1.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 300 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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