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127.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 5.4K upvotes, which works out to 42 per 1,000 members.

42peak upvotes per 1,000 members
127.1Kmembers
5.4Kbest post
331most 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.

55% 19% 9%
Image 55% Gallery 19% Video 9% Link 7% Text 7% Question 3%

What the ceiling looks like

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

A German-Jewish WW1 veteran wears his Iron Cross while a Nazi soldier stands in front of his shop for intimidation - 1933.

↑ 5.4K 💬 179 image 2026

An US sniper shows his 1903 rifle (1918)

↑ 4.7K 💬 73 image 2026

Campaign launched to establish a First World War film restoration initiative and major documentary project on Germany in WW1

↑ 4.3K 💬 40 video 2026

British POW allowed to return to England to visit dying mother if he promised to come back to the POW camp.

↑ 3.9K 💬 211 image 2026

I traveled to Verdun last week. It is just completely unfathomable what took place there over 100 years ago.

↑ 2.8K 💬 50 gallery 2026

WW1 german vet talks about storming a french position and the pyschological weight of hand to hand combat.

↑ 2.7K 💬 43 video 2026

coolest and craziest finds of my one week Verdun trip

↑ 2K 💬 88 gallery 2026

Why is the Eastern Front so obscure?

↑ 2K 💬 136 image 2026

Portuguese soldier giving a goodbye kiss to his wife before departing to the front in France, 1916

↑ 2K 💬 23 image 2026

WW1 first time seeing a tank, what would you do?

↑ 1.9K 💬 331 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/ww1, in numbers

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

How many members does r/ww1 have?
r/ww1 has about 127.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 5.4K upvotes, which is 42 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/ww1?
"A German-Jewish WW1 veteran wears his Iron Cross while a Nazi soldier stands in front of his shop for intimidation - 1933." reached 5.4K upvotes and 179 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/ww1.
What subreddits are similar to r/ww1?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone, r/topofreddit.
What kind of posts do best on r/ww1?
Of the posts we hold, 55% are image posts and 19% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/ww1?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 13:00 UTC (1.1K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 16:00 UTC (1K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 15:00 UTC (930 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/ww1?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/ww1 has 842 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/ww1, 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.