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r/TheSilphRoad

Pokémon GO's Largest Grassroots Network: The Silph Road. Reddit's #1 spot for Pokémon GO™ discoveries and research. Founded 2016 · 1M members

1M members. The best post we have captured here reached 15.1K upvotes, which works out to 15 per 1,000 members.

15peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1Mmembers
15.1Kbest post
1.2Kmost comments
962posts 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.

33% 25% 12% 12% 12%
Image 33% Text 25% Question 12% Video 12% Gallery 12% Link 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.

Discussion 144 New Info! 110 Question 87 Bug 78 Battle Showcase 72 PSA 68 Photo 44 Analysis 40 Official News 32 Infographic - Event 22

What the ceiling looks like

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

Wild Shiny Kangaskhan found in Australia (sorry Australian Phone)

↑ 15.1K 💬 245 image 2019

[Concept] I think it’s about time we get more diverse catch screen backgrounds than the default green forest field that match the biome or area were …

↑ 11.1K 💬 257 image 2019

The End of an Era: After seven extraordinary years, the Silph Road team is ceasing operations. Thank you all for joining us on this remarkable journe…

↑ 10.4K 💬 1.1K text 2023

Community Open Letter to Niantic

↑ 10.4K 💬 1.1K text 2021

Not sure if it’s a bug but Ferroseed just rolled off screen.

↑ 10.1K 💬 453 video 2019

(Bug) Magnezone turned into a church

↑ 9.7K 💬 356 image 2020

This would have made a great event. Instead of Christmas Hat Pikachu... Easter egg Chansey..

↑ 9.3K 💬 272 image 2019

Guess it doesn’t get more real than this?

↑ 9.1K 💬 209 image 2019

My Dratini didn't returned to its pokeball after defeat. It just stayed there.. dead..

↑ 9.1K 💬 380 image 2020

7 Months without a single spawn

↑ 9.1K 💬 553 text 2019

Communities its size

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

r/TheSilphRoad, in numbers

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

What is r/TheSilphRoad?
r/TheSilphRoad ("Pokémon GO's Largest Grassroots Network: The Silph Road") describes itself this way: Reddit's #1 spot for Pokémon GO™ discoveries and research. It was founded in 2016 and has 1M members.
How many members does r/TheSilphRoad have?
r/TheSilphRoad has about 1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 962 of its posts; the biggest reached 15.1K upvotes, which is 15 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/TheSilphRoad?
"Wild Shiny Kangaskhan found in Australia (sorry Australian Phone)" reached 15.1K upvotes and 245 comments in 2019, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/TheSilphRoad.
What subreddits are similar to r/TheSilphRoad?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois, r/economicCollapse.
What kind of posts do best on r/TheSilphRoad?
Of the posts we hold, 33% are image posts and 25% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/TheSilphRoad?
Across 962 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 15:00 UTC (3.9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 21:00 UTC (3.5K avg upvotes), Thursday at 21:00 UTC (3.3K 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/TheSilphRoad?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/TheSilphRoad has 7.2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 300 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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