r/writers: Writers Helping Writers. All are welcome at r/writers: fiction writers, nonfiction writers, bloggers and more! Get critique on your work, share resources, ask questions and help fellow writers. Founded 2009 · 437.8K members
441.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached
18.4K upvotes, which works out to
42 per 1,000 members.
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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What is r/writers?
r/writers ("r/writers: Writers Helping Writers") describes itself this way: All are welcome at r/writers: fiction writers, nonfiction writers, bloggers and more! Get critique on your work, share resources, ask questions and help fellow writers. It was founded in 2009 and has 437.8K members.
How many members does r/writers have?
r/writers has about 441.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 419 of its posts; the biggest reached 18.4K upvotes, which is 42 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/writers?
"Agreed." reached 18.4K upvotes and 324 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/writers.
What subreddits are similar to r/writers?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/writers?
Of the posts we hold, 34% are text posts and 34% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/writers?
Across 419 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 16:00 UTC (10.4K avg upvotes), Thursday at 16:00 UTC (6.8K avg upvotes), Thursday at 13:00 UTC (6.1K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/writers?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/writers has 7.6K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 75 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/writers, 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 We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is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.