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r/AskReddit

Reddit's largest open question-and-answer forum, and one of the most active discussion spaces on the platform.

16.8Mweekly visitors · 28-day average, observed Aug 14, 2026
59.4Mmembers · observed Aug 14, 2026
Jan 25, 2008community created
Since 2021membership records in the public showcase

Fixed weekly detail

A year of r/AskReddit, week by week.

Complete Monday–Sunday totals on a consistent window, so a spike can be compared with the community’s own history rather than a shifting average.

Weekly contributionsPublic posts plus comments, r/AskReddit
latest 1.1Mweek of Jul 27, 202652-week average 837.3K
574.8K747.8K920.7K1.1M1.3MAug 25Nov 25Feb 26May 26Jul 26Weekly contributionspeak 1.2M · Jul 6, 2026574.8K920.7K1.3MAug 25Feb 26Jul 26peak 1.2M · Jul 6, 2026

Each point is a complete Monday–Sunday UTC total. Coverage: Aug 4, 2025Jul 27, 2026.

Weekly contributorsUnique accounts contributing, r/AskReddit
latest 326.4Kweek of Jun 22, 202652-week average 263K
184.4K236.2K288K339.8K391.5KJun 25Sep 25Dec 25Mar 26Jun 26Weekly contributorspeak 368.9K · Jun 1, 2026184.4K288K391.5KJun 25Dec 25Jun 26peak 368.9K · Jun 1, 2026

Each point is a complete Monday–Sunday UTC total. Coverage: Jun 30, 2025Jun 22, 2026.

Reach × participation

Who visits, and who takes part.

Visitors measure reach; contributions measure participation. Reading them on one timeline shows whether attention and activity move together. One thing to expect: the visitor figure is a 28-day rolling average, so it reacts to a burst of activity two to three weeks later than the fixed-week contribution totals above. Visitor collection began in September 2025, which is where this chart starts.

Reach × participationWeekly visitors and weekly contributions, one timeline
Visitors · left scaleContributions · right scale
12.4M17.5M22.6M674.5K932.7K1.2MSep 25Dec 25Feb 26May 26Aug 26Weekly visitorsWeekly contributions12.4M17.5M22.6M674.5K932.7K1.2MSep 25Feb 26Aug 26

Visitors: past-seven-day unique reach on a 28-day rolling average, one observed reading per week. Contributions: complete Monday–Sunday UTC totals. Both series cover the same span, from Sep 14, 2025, the first day of visitor collection, through the week ending Aug 2, 2026, the latest complete contribution week; newer visitor readings appear in the header above, and the full 52-week contribution history is in the chart above. The two measures use separate scales, so compare the shapes rather than the heights. Because the visitor figure averages the trailing 28 days, it responds to a swing in activity two to three weeks after the fixed-week contribution series does; when a visitor peak shows up a few weeks behind a contribution peak, that’s the smoothing.

The long view

Membership, month by month.

Five years of member counts for r/AskReddit, one point per month.

Membership since 2021Members over time, r/AskReddit
59.4M+71.8% since Aug 21
36.2M47M57.8MAug 21Nov 22Feb 24May 25Aug 26Members36.2M47M57.8MAug 21Feb 24Aug 26

One point per month. The vertical axis does not start at zero; it is scaled to make the trend readable.

Adjacent communities

Read it against its neighbors.

Size alone doesn’t explain activity patterns. These showcase communities make useful contrasts.

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