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r/softwaregoreNSFW

poke fun at nasty software. poke fun at nasty software Founded 2013 · 2M members · links only

2M members. The best post we have captured here reached 70.1K upvotes, which works out to 36 per 1,000 members.

36peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2Mmembers
70.1Kbest post
3.9Kmost comments
415posts 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.

94%
Image 94% Video 6%

The topics it labels

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

Exceptional Done To Death 22 r/all gore 3 META 2 Number Gore 2 WE'VE BEEN EXPOSED! 1 Minegore 1 True Software Gore 1 Error Message Gore 1 Seizure Warning 1 Not OK 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Using AI to de-anonymize blurred photos. Our privacy is doomed yet again

↑ 70.1K 💬 632 image 2020

Seriously guys.

↑ 64.1K 💬 512 image 2019

Chrome PDF viewer crashed while printing a document

↑ 60.9K 💬 652 image 2019

My B.M.I is apparently infinite.

↑ 57.6K 💬 864 image 2021

I got a coupon code for 30% off Bluetooth headphones that ended up being 98% off when I entered the code.

↑ 57.4K 💬 957 image 2019

please dont report this to dominos im living off of this right now

↑ 54.6K 💬 1K video 2019

My Uber driver is too busy transcending time and space to pick me up

↑ 53.7K 💬 826 video 2019

An idea for the up/down vote buttons for this sub

↑ 53.4K 💬 301 image 2019

Down we go!

↑ 51.8K 💬 564 image 2018

Guys, I think I’m addicted to settings

↑ 51.1K 💬 480 image 2018

Communities its size

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

r/softwaregore, in numbers

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

What is r/softwaregore?
r/softwaregore ("poke fun at nasty software") describes itself this way: poke fun at nasty software. It was founded in 2013 and has 2M members.
How many members does r/softwaregore have?
r/softwaregore has about 2M members. ViralHunt has tracked 415 of its posts; the biggest reached 70.1K upvotes, which is 36 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/softwaregore?
"Using AI to de-anonymize blurred photos. Our privacy is doomed yet again" reached 70.1K upvotes and 632 comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/softwaregore.
What subreddits are similar to r/softwaregore?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/goodnews, r/AnarchyChess, r/minnesota, r/Amazing, r/PcBuild.
What kind of posts do best on r/softwaregore?
Of the posts we hold, 94% are image posts and 6% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/softwaregore?
Across 415 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 11:00 UTC (41.2K avg upvotes), Thursday at 08:00 UTC (31K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 09:00 UTC (30.6K 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/softwaregore?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/softwaregore has 44.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 56 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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