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582.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 378 upvotes, which works out to 1 per 1,000 members.

1peak upvotes per 1,000 members
582.3Kmembers
378best post
271most 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.

90%
Video 90% Text 5% Question 3% Image 1% Link 1%

The topics it labels

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

OC 199 Film 58 Question 21 X-Post 14 WIP 5 Meta 2 Gear 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

My cactus surprise-bloomed for a second time this month. Here is the overnight opening compressed into a 18-second loop.

↑ 378 đŸ’Ŧ 13 video 2026

Filtering Vodka in a Brita: Android phone in the kitchen

↑ 247 đŸ’Ŧ 271 video 2026

Tamarind sprouting. The closest one to the camera, turned out to be an albino.

↑ 182 đŸ’Ŧ 5 video 2026

A Hyperlapse of the CN Tower in Toronto, ON - Nikon D850

↑ 159 đŸ’Ŧ 14 video 2026

Mods - we need a no AI rule please

↑ 136 đŸ’Ŧ 26 text 2026

I made a timelapse video of my view changing over eight years.

↑ 121 đŸ’Ŧ 11 video 2026

This time lapse of a puddle rising and falling perfectly

↑ 115 đŸ’Ŧ 5 video 2026

Milky Way through the Clouds [Nikon Z5][California]

↑ 95 đŸ’Ŧ 5 video 2026

When the sky puts on a show. Wait till the end! đŸŒŠī¸ Philippines, using iphone 15.

↑ 76 đŸ’Ŧ 7 video 2026

X9 Ultra Time-lapse from my window view

↑ 75 đŸ’Ŧ 15 video 2026

Communities its size

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

r/timelapse, in numbers

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

How many members does r/timelapse have?
r/timelapse has about 582.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 378 upvotes, which is 1 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/timelapse?
"My cactus surprise-bloomed for a second time this month. Here is the overnight opening compressed into a 18-second loop." reached 378 upvotes and 13 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/timelapse.
What subreddits are similar to r/timelapse?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow, r/StarWarsBattlefront.
What kind of posts do best on r/timelapse?
Of the posts we hold, 90% are video posts and 5% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/timelapse?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 05:00 UTC (55 avg upvotes), Sunday at 13:00 UTC (40 avg upvotes), Saturday at 17:00 UTC (39 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/timelapse?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/timelapse has 59 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 113 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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