Choose a measure, a period and a window. Hover over the chart or tap it to read any point, with the change on the same point a year earlier.
All of RedditPosts and comments per week
Week ending Sep 27, 202694.9M+13.3% on a year earlier
1WHO declares COVID-19 a pandemic
2GameStop short squeeze
3Subreddits go dark over API pricing
4Reddit lists on the NYSE
Posts and comments added together.
Contributors
The accounts that write Reddit
An account counts as a contributor in a period once it has made one post or comment in it, and it counts once however much more it writes.
Unique contributors per year75.0M accounts posted or commented during 2025
2026 · so far, to Aug 31, 202661.0MProjected for the year 78.6M (77.0M to 81.2M)
Each bar is one calendar year. The 2026 bar counts accounts through Aug 31, 2026. The dashed outline is where the full year lands if it grows from here the way 2022 to 2025 did, and the whisker spans those four years.
Unique contributors by day, week, month or yearUnique contributors per month
August 202620.6M+3.7% on a year earlier
1WHO declares COVID-19 a pandemic
2GameStop short squeeze
3Subreddits go dark over API pricing
4Reddit lists on the NYSE
Accounts that made at least one post or comment in the period, each counted once however much it wrote.
Every account to date267M accounts have written on Reddit since December 2005
August 2026267M
Each point counts every account that had posted or commented at least once by the end of that month.
First-time contributors37.5M accounts wrote for the first time in 2025
2026 · so far, to Aug 31, 202626.4MProjected for the year 39.6M (38.6M to 41.8M)
Accounts whose first post or comment fell in that year. The 2026 bar runs to Aug 31, 2026, and the dashed outline is the full year Oscylo predicts.
The Reddit calendar
When Reddit is busy and when it goes quiet
Activity by month, weekday, holiday and hour, each set against a normal level for that stretch of time.
Month of the yearEach month against its year’s trend
Posts and commentsUnique contributors
DecPosts and comments−4.1%Unique contributors−2.7%
Median of 2012 to 2025. Each bar compares a month’s average day with the twelve months centered on it.
Day of the weekEach weekday against the average day
Posts and commentsUnique contributors
SunPosts and comments−2.6%Unique contributors−3.8%
The fifty-two complete weeks to Sep 27, 2026, and to Aug 30, 2026 for contributors.
HolidaysThe quietest days of the year
Posts and commentsUnique contributors
Christmas Day
−22.1%−16.9%
New Year’s Day
−16.5%−14.4%
December 26
−15.5%−13.5%
Christmas Eve
−13.6%−9.7%
The day after Thanksgiving
−10.4%−9.1%
Memorial Day (US)
−9.3%−6.2%
Thanksgiving (US)
−8.8%−7.2%
July 4
−7.6%−6.1%
Labor Day (US)
−6.4%−4.5%
New Year’s Eve
−5.1%−6.6%
Oscylo
Each day against the same weekday three to six weeks either side, as the median of 2012 to 2025.
Hour of the weekPosts and comments in each hour, against the average hour
Tuesday 1pm to 2pm US Eastern+35% against the average hourQuietest Saturday 4am, −35%
QuieterBusier
The 13 complete weeks from Jun 1, 2026 to Aug 30, 2026.
Communities
How many communities are active each week
A community is active in a week once any account posts or comments in it. The lines count the communities that had at least 1, 5, 25, 100, 1,000 and 10,000 contributors that week.
Communities with activity, weekly400,819 communities had at least one contributor in the week ending Aug 30, 2026, and 37,584 had 100 or more
Week ending Aug 30, 202625+ contributors68,743100+ contributors37,584
A contributor is an account that posted or commented in the community that week, so people who only read or vote are not counted. Tap a series name to show or hide it. The 1+ and 5+ lines start hidden, and each gridline is a power of ten.
Participation
How people take part
Comments per post, posts and comments per contributor, and the share of comments that answer the post itself, every complete week.
Comments per post, weekly8.5 comments for every post in the week ending Sep 27, 2026
Week ending Sep 27, 20268.54
Comments made in the week divided by posts made in the week.
Activity per contributor, weekly9.5 posts and comments for each contributor in the week ending Aug 30, 2026
Week ending Aug 30, 20269.54
Posts and comments in the week divided by the accounts that wrote them.
Direct replies, weekly54% of comments replied directly to the post in the week ending Aug 30, 2026
Week ending Aug 30, 202654.5%
These are shares of the comments made in each month’s 50,000 busiest communities, the same communities behind the content shares below. The remaining comments replied to other comments in the thread.
Content
What gets posted
The share of posts marked NSFW and the share written as text, every week since 2006, then the full mix of formats from June 2026, the first month with formats on record. Every share counts the posts made in each month’s 50,000 busiest communities, which carried 88% of all posts on Reddit from Jun 1 to Aug 30, 2026.
NSFW and text posts, weekly46% of posts were marked NSFW and 41% were text posts in the week ending Aug 30, 2026
Marked NSFWText posts
Week ending Aug 30, 2026Marked NSFW46.1%Text posts41.2%
Both lines are shares of the posts made in each month’s 50,000 busiest communities. Before 2008 almost no posts were text posts.
Post formats, weeklySince the week ending Jun 7, galleries rose from 15.8% to 17.0% of posts and videos fell from 10.8% to 9.0%
TextImageGalleryVideoLink
Week ending Aug 30, 2026Text+0.3 pts41.2% of postsImage+0.3 pts28.2% of postsGallery+1.2 pts17.0% of postsVideo−1.7 pts9.0% of postsLink0.0 pts4.5% of posts
The chart opens on how many percentage points each format has gained or lost since the week ending Jun 7. Share of posts shows the levels, which add up to every post in the same communities as the chart above, so text matches it week for week. A gallery holds several images in one post, and links cover every post that is not text, an image, a gallery or a video.
Post formatsPosts by format, Jun 1, 2026 to Aug 30, 2026
Text
41.7%
Image
28.5%
Gallery
16.1%
Video
9.2%
Link
4.4%
Oscylo
118M posts in each month’s 50,000 busiest communities over 13 complete weeks.
Waitlist
Predicted DAU
Reddit’s reported daily active uniques for every quarter on record, and the coming quarter, which Oscylo forecasts but keeps private.
Reported daily active uniquesReddit’s DAUq, as reported each quarter
Q2 '26130M
From Reddit’s quarterly results. DAUq is the average number of daily active uniques across the quarter.
Past forecastsSee how our earlier predictions compared with what Reddit reported.Track record→
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Reddit daily posts, comments and unique contributors since 2005
Every day from Reddit’s first, with posts, comments and the accounts that wrote them.