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r/sysadmin

This community is private, banned or no longer exists on Reddit. The numbers below are what we captured while it was public.

1.3M members. The best post we have captured here reached 6.5K upvotes, which works out to 5 per 1,000 members.

5peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.3Mmembers
6.5Kbest post
5.4Kmost comments
1.2Kposts 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.

63% 37%
Text 63% Question 37%

The topics it labels

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

Question 362 General Discussion 157 Rant 46 Career / Job Related 34 Microsoft 27 Question - Solved 16 Work Environment 8 Off Topic 8 ChatGPT 6 End-user Support 4

What the ceiling looks like

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

Microsoft Office seems to be down

↑ 6.5K 💬 5.4K text 2026

Microsoft owes you money for today's outage. They won't tell you. Here's how to claim it.

↑ 4.8K 💬 278 text 2026

I hate terminating deceased accounts.

↑ 3.4K 💬 491 text 2026

I have never seen such a remarkable status update as this (Microsoft)

↑ 2.9K 💬 1.1K text 2026

Topgolf saved over $11.3 million after leaving VMware

↑ 2.4K 💬 302 text 2026

The Best Update I Have Ever Seen From MS

↑ 2.3K 💬 449 text 2026

Please, stop sending me slop

↑ 1.8K 💬 479 text 2026

3:07AM UDT “Current status: We’ve monitored the status of the changes applied to improve serviceability and confirmed that change is not taking as ex…

↑ 1.8K 💬 922 text 2026

Server Prices are insane now - 128k for a decwnt VM host.

↑ 1.6K 💬 649 text 2026

Microsoft Strikes Again - Entire M365 tenant has been "deauthenticated" by Microsoft for two weeks

↑ 1.3K 💬 187 text 2026

Communities its size

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

r/sysadmin, in numbers

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

How many members does r/sysadmin have?
r/sysadmin has about 1.3M members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.2K of its posts; the biggest reached 6.5K upvotes, which is 5 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/sysadmin?
"Microsoft Office seems to be down" reached 6.5K upvotes and 5.4K comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/sysadmin.
What subreddits are similar to r/sysadmin?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/illinois, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/alberta, r/massachusetts, r/goodnews.
What kind of posts do best on r/sysadmin?
Of the posts we hold, 63% are text posts and 37% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/sysadmin?
Across 1.2K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 03:00 UTC (733 avg upvotes), Thursday at 17:00 UTC (512 avg upvotes), Saturday at 03:00 UTC (438 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/sysadmin?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/sysadmin has 791 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 89 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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