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r/technology

/r/Technology. Subreddit dedicated to the news and discussions about the creation and use of technology and its surrounding issues. Founded 2008 · 20.6M members · links only

20.6M members. The best post we have captured here reached 171.8K upvotes, which works out to 8 per 1,000 members.

8peak upvotes per 1,000 members
20.6Mmembers
171.8Kbest post
17.9Kmost comments
4.8Kposts 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.

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The topics it labels

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

Artificial Intelligence 562 Business 329 Society 136 Hardware 114 Privacy 95 Software 92 Security 80 Energy 75 Social Media 65 Politics 59

What the ceiling looks like

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

Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X

↑ 171.8K 💬 6.8K link 2025

Reddit bans subreddit group "r/DonaldTrump"

↑ 147.3K 💬 10.2K link 2021

Congress has set out a bill to stop the FCC taking away our internet. PLEASE SPREAD THIS AS MUCH AS YOU CAN.

↑ 140K 💬 1.5K link 2017

John Oliver Blackmails Congress With Their Own Digital Data - The ‘Last Week Tonight’ host paid shady brokers for lawmakers’ digital histories — prom…

↑ 133K 💬 5.1K link 2022

California-based game company Blizzard bans pro esports player and confiscates his prize money after he voices support for Hong Kong protesters

↑ 129.9K 💬 6.9K link 2019

Joe Biden calls game developers "little creeps" who make titles that "teach you how to kill"

↑ 128.4K 💬 10.1K link 2020

Hacker collective Anonymous declares 'cyber war' against Russia, disables state news website

↑ 127.5K 💬 3.3K link 2022

President of USA wants to ban advertising targeted toward kids

↑ 121.4K 💬 4K link 2022

If Reddit was half as verbal about net neutrality as they are about Star Wars Battlefront II, then we could stop ISP's and the FCC

↑ 121.1K 💬 2.5K text 2017

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

↑ 118K 💬 2.7K link 2025

Communities its size

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

r/technology, in numbers

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

What is r/technology?
r/technology ("/r/Technology") describes itself this way: Subreddit dedicated to the news and discussions about the creation and use of technology and its surrounding issues. It was founded in 2008 and has 20.6M members.
How many members does r/technology have?
r/technology has about 20.6M members. ViralHunt has tracked 4.8K of its posts; the biggest reached 171.8K upvotes, which is 8 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/technology?
"Hundreds of Subreddits Are Considering Banning All Links to X" reached 171.8K upvotes and 6.8K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/technology.
What subreddits are similar to r/technology?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/dankmemes, r/KidsAreFuckingStupid, r/therewasanattempt, r/BlackPeopleTwitter, r/me_irl, r/nextfuckinglevel.
What kind of posts do best on r/technology?
Of the posts we hold, 100% are link posts and 0% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/technology?
Across 4.8K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 04:00 UTC (33.7K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 03:00 UTC (28.3K avg upvotes), Sunday at 08:00 UTC (26K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. 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/technology?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/technology has 105.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 831 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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