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r/uknewsNSFW

News from (and relevant to) the UK. A sub for UK News all in one place Founded 2008 · 271.3K members · links only

273.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 44.3K upvotes, which works out to 162 per 1,000 members.

162peak upvotes per 1,000 members
273.7Kmembers
44.3Kbest post
5.9Kmost comments
417posts 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.

93%
Link 93% Video 4% Image 2% Text 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.

... 72 News paper 15 Image/video 10 .. 9 Local news story 9 Casual news story 6 . 4 Positive news 4 Live feed, happening now! 2

What the ceiling looks like

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

Daughter jailed for life for killing parents and living with dead bodies for FOUR years

↑ 44.3K 💬 3.2K video 2024

GMP officer attacks man who is not resisting, at Manchester Airport recently

↑ 35K 💬 1.8K video 2024

Massive protest outside Rochdale police station in response to GMP's actions at Manchester Airport

↑ 15.7K 💬 2.6K video 2024

This is the moment a swarm of youths ran into a crowd in Notting Hill Carnival armed with machetes

↑ 12.5K 💬 5.9K video 2023

What has started the riots in Leeds?

↑ 7.7K 💬 1.9K video 2024

Sky News journalist forced off air by muslim protestors in Birmingham

↑ 7.3K 💬 134 video 2024

Donald Trump says he won't deport Prince Harry as 'he has enough problems with his terrible wife'

↑ 6.9K 💬 850 link 2025

Leader of libdems Edward Darvey "People have had enough of Elon Musk interfering with our country’s democracy when he clearly knows nothing about Bri…

↑ 6.7K 💬 529 link 2025

Bin men attacked with lollipop sign after road rage incident

↑ 6.5K 💬 2.1K video 2025

Most Brits think people with second homes should pay more tax

↑ 5.8K 💬 518 link 2025

Communities its size

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

r/uknews, in numbers

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

What is r/uknews?
r/uknews ("News from (and relevant to) the UK") describes itself this way: A sub for UK News all in one place. It was founded in 2008 and has 271.3K members.
How many members does r/uknews have?
r/uknews has about 273.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 417 of its posts; the biggest reached 44.3K upvotes, which is 162 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/uknews?
"Daughter jailed for life for killing parents and living with dead bodies for FOUR years" reached 44.3K upvotes and 3.2K comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/uknews.
What subreddits are similar to r/uknews?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers, r/Louisiana.
What kind of posts do best on r/uknews?
Of the posts we hold, 93% are link posts and 4% are video posts.
When is the best time to post on r/uknews?
Across 417 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 17:00 UTC (4.8K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 21:00 UTC (4.2K avg upvotes), Monday at 12:00 UTC (3.9K 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/uknews?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/uknews has 3.4K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 311 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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