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r/thisweekinretro

6.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 376 upvotes, which works out to 60 per 1,000 members.

60peak upvotes per 1,000 members
6.2Kmembers
376best post
132most comments
182posts 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.

41% 21% 19% 17%
Link 41% Text 21% Video 19% Image 17% Gallery 2% Question 1%

What the ceiling looks like

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

ChatGPT Gets 'Absolutely Wrecked' in Chess Match With 1978 Atari

↑ 376 💬 67 link 2026

Valve Was Forced To Censor Games, Now They've Outed Mastercard

↑ 208 💬 43 text 2025

Visited Dundee - had to see the Lemmings

↑ 184 💬 2 gallery 2026

Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original…

↑ 168 💬 16 link 2025

Windows 11 still runs on code from the 1990s, Microsoft admits

↑ 150 💬 93 link 2026

Microsoft finally open sources DOS 1.0 - and it's so much more than the code

↑ 149 💬 24 link 2026

Nostalgia Nerd on BBC talking about when Microsoft finally caught up to AmigaOS

↑ 149 💬 48 image 2025

The 386 microcode has been fully reverse engineered - And it runs DOOM!

↑ 130 💬 12 link 2026

The creator of Ultima is reportedly reclaiming the series' rights back from EA, and it could happen as soon as next year

↑ 122 💬 20 link 2026

90s Nintendo console runs faster as it gets older and no one knows why | Metro News

↑ 117 💬 16 link 2025

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/thisweekinretro, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.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.