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1.3M members. The best post we have captured here reached 1.6K upvotes, which works out to 1 per 1,000 members.

1peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1.3Mmembers
1.6Kbest post
648most comments
300posts 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.

61% 39%
Text 61% Question 39%

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 90 General Discussion 35 Rant 11 Microsoft 10 Career / Job Related 5 Question - Solved 3 Work Environment 2 ChatGPT 2 Off Topic 2 Linux 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

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

↑ 1.6K 💬 648 text 2026

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

↑ 1.3K 💬 184 text 2026

Stay safe people

↑ 994 💬 249 text 2026

Operations bought an EMS/IoT system without involving IT — now they just need “access to the router

↑ 804 💬 327 text 2026

How are companies not using SPF/DKIM/DMARC?

↑ 775 💬 289 question 2026

In light of today's Exchange Online outage

↑ 699 💬 226 text 2026

HP Support is intentionally hanging up on people

↑ 682 💬 203 text 2026

Does IT cause anxiety?

↑ 654 💬 423 question 2026

The recruiter wrote back to me after I responded to her rejection.

↑ 615 💬 186 text 2026

Anyone else feel like AI has taken the sport out of our profession?

↑ 564 💬 548 question 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/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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.