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Software - Anything software-related. Anything software-related. Please follow our rules to avoid getting punished. Founded 2008 · 376.5K members

378.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 7.2K upvotes, which works out to 19 per 1,000 members.

19peak upvotes per 1,000 members
378.3Kmembers
7.2Kbest post
1.3Kmost comments
840posts 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.

35% 19% 18% 17% 10%
Text 35% Question 19% Image 18% Link 17% Gallery 10% 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.

Looking for software :Windows: :Searching: 182 Discussion :Chat: 155 Release :Windows::upvote: 113 Self-Promotion Wednesdays 98 Software support :Windows: :Support: 51 Other :Other: 41 Release :Other::upvote: 32 Looking for software :Android: :Searching: 20 Looking for software :Other: :Searching: 16 Jobs & Education :Jobs: 15

What the ceiling looks like

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

Eye tracking software for sufferers of ALS/MND can cost tends of thousands of dollars, so I've spent 3.5 years of my spare time writing a free & open…

↑ 7.2K 💬 1K video 2015

correct me if im wrong

↑ 3.2K 💬 80 image 2026

Btw meta invested $73B into this !

↑ 2.5K 💬 76 image 2026

Adobe the most evil company I've ever dealt with.

↑ 2.4K 💬 426 image 2024

Everything you need to know about the guy who gave us VLC

↑ 1.6K 💬 79 text 2025

I hate Adobe so much I wrote my own PDF editor and open-sourced it

↑ 1.5K 💬 222 text 2026

I got a refund request because my offline file utility doesn't "use AI" to scan the cloud. The brain rot is real.

↑ 1.4K 💬 82 text 2025

Makes complete sense 😭😭

↑ 1.4K 💬 58 image 2026

I fucking hate Windows 11

↑ 1.4K 💬 375 text 2026

Software engineering was different, but it's over now

↑ 1.2K 💬 381 text 2026

Communities its size

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

r/software, in numbers

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

What is r/software?
r/software ("Software - Anything software-related") describes itself this way: Anything software-related. Please follow our rules to avoid getting punished. It was founded in 2008 and has 376.5K members.
How many members does r/software have?
r/software has about 378.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 840 of its posts; the biggest reached 7.2K upvotes, which is 19 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/software?
"Eye tracking software for sufferers of ALS/MND can cost tends of thousands of dollars, so I've spent 3.5 years of my spare time writing a fr" reached 7.2K upvotes and 1K comments in 2015, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/software.
What subreddits are similar to r/software?
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/software?
Of the posts we hold, 35% are text posts and 19% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/software?
Across 840 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 01:00 UTC (537 avg upvotes), Saturday at 05:00 UTC (491 avg upvotes), Sunday at 07:00 UTC (481 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/software?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/software has 674 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/software, 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.