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371.6K 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
371.6Kmembers
7.2Kbest post
1.3Kmost comments
101posts 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.

30% 30% 23% 9%
Image 30% Text 30% Question 23% Gallery 9% Link 5% Video 4%

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 :Chat: 37 Other :Other: 10 Release :Windows::upvote: 8 Looking for software :Windows: :Searching: 7 Software support :Windows: :Support: 4 News :Shoutout: 3 Self-Promotion Wednesdays 3 Looking for software :Other: :Searching: 2 Jobs & Education :Jobs: 1 Announcement :Shoutout: 1

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 πŸ’¬ 1K video 2015

correct me if im wrong

↑ 3.2K πŸ’¬ 80 image 2026

Btw meta invested $73B into this !

↑ 2.5K πŸ’¬ 76 image 2026

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

↑ 2.4K πŸ’¬ 426 image 2024

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

↑ 1.6K πŸ’¬ 79 text 2025

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

↑ 1.5K πŸ’¬ 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 πŸ’¬ 82 text 2025

Makes complete sense 😭😭

↑ 1.4K πŸ’¬ 58 image 2026

I fucking hate Windows 11

↑ 1.4K πŸ’¬ 375 text 2026

Software engineering was different, but it's over now

↑ 1.2K πŸ’¬ 381 text 2026

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/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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.