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r/confession

People anonymously admit things they have done, secrets they have kept or feelings never voiced aloud, and other members respond without knowing who they are.

Weekly data through Sep 27, 2026

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Posts and comments, every week since October 2023
75.8K−12.7%in 4 weeks, year over year
202420252026Peak 44.2K · Apr 27, 2025
Members12M+2.4% year over yearRead Sep 27, 2026
Posts and comments in 4 weeks75.8K−12.7% year over year4 weeks to Sep 27, 2026
Unique contributors per week10K−6.4% year over year4-week average to Aug 30, 2026
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Three years, week by week

Weekly activity in r/confession

Three years of weekly history. Download any chart as a PNG.

Posts and comments per week · 3 yearsPublic posts plus comments, r/confession

Week ending Sep 27, 202622.4K+20.0% on the same week a year earlier

Posts and comments per week020K40K60KNov ’232024MarMayJulSepNov2025MarMayJulSepNov2026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 44.2K · Apr 27, 2025Low 5,407 · Jul 28, 2024Posts and comments per week020K40K60K2024Jul2025Jul2026JulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 44.2K · Apr 27, 2025Low 5,407 · Jul 28, 2024

Each point is a complete Monday–Sunday UTC week, dated by the Sunday it closed. The busiest week in the range is marked, and the quietest where it stands well apart.

Weekly unique contributors · 3 yearsUnique contributors to r/confession

Week ending Aug 30, 20268,773−7.1% on the same week a year earlier

Unique contributors per week010K20K30K40K2024AprJulOct2025AprJulOct2026AprJulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 27.9K · Apr 27, 2025Unique contributors per week020K40K2024Jul2025Jul2026JulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 27.9K · Apr 27, 2025

Accounts that posted or commented in the week, each counted once. Updated monthly.

Members · 3 yearsMembers of r/confession

Week ending Sep 27, 202612M+2.4% on the same week a year earlier

Members6M8M10M12M14M2024AprJulOct2025AprJulOct2026AprJulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGMembers5M8M10M13M15M2024Jul2025Jul2026JulWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNG

The member count Reddit shows for the community, read once a week.

Posts and comments · 3 yearsPosts against comments, r/confession

Week ending Sep 27, 2026Weekly posts986−17.6% on the same week a year earlierWeekly comments21.4K+22.6% on the same week a year earlier

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Posts on the left scale, comments on the right. Each series is auto-scaled.

Weekly visitorsWeekly visitors, r/confession
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Weekly contributions against Members · 3 yearsr/confession
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Week ending Sep 27, 2026
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ValueSince Oct 8, 2023Since the week beforeValueSince Oct 8, 2023Since the week before
r/confession22.4K+121.3%+29.1% from Sep 2012M+78.4%+0.1% from Sep 20
Posts and comments per weekMembers010K20K30K40K50K8M10M12M14MMarAugJan ’25JunNovAprSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPosts and comments per weekMembers020K40K60K8M10M12M14MJun ’24Mar ’25Dec ’25Sep ’26Week, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNG

Public posts plus comments in each complete Monday-to-Sunday week, UTC. Members are the member count Reddit shows for the community, one reading a week. Solid lines use the left scale and dashed lines the right. Each scale is auto-scaled.

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Activity pattern

Why r/confession is classified as Rising

Oscylo reads the newest 52 weeks of posts, comments and unique contributors and gives each subreddit one of the patterns below. The figures behind the label are shown beside it.

Activity patternRising

Contributions and the number of contributing accounts in r/confession both trend upward across their displayed periods.

How the label is read

Concentration1.47×
2.5×

The busiest four weeks against the quietest, with the yearly trend taken out. At 2.5× or more the year counts as concentrated: Seasonal if the busy weeks came at the same time in earlier years, Event-driven if they did not, and Variable when there is too little history to tell.

Posts and comments, yearly trend+25.3%/yr
−20%0+20%

To be considered Rising, a subreddit needs posts and comments up 20% or more over the year, with unique contributors also rising. Cooling is the same in reverse, and anything between is Steady. The trend is a line fitted through all 52 weeks, so a single busy week barely moves it.

Unique contributors, yearly trend+2.5%/yr
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Posts and comments per weekThe newest 52 weeks against the 52 before, r/confession

Week ending Sep 27, 2026Newest 52 weeks22.4KThe 52 weeks before18.7K

Posts and comments per week020K40K60KNov ’252026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGPeak 27.8K · Jan 4, 2026Posts and comments per week020K40K60KNov ’252026MarMayJulSepWeek, dated by the Sunday it endedDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNGPeak 27.8K · Jan 4, 2026

The 52 weeks before are drawn on the same calendar, so each week lines up with the matching week of the previous year.

Community anatomy

r/confession statistics

Six measures of how the community posts and replies, averaged over the twelve weeks from Jun 8, 2026 to Aug 30, 2026. Each bar places r/confession among every subreddit on Oscylo; the diamond marks the middle of its topic.

Comments per post

16.9 comments for each new post

LowerHigher

Higher than 48% of subreddits. Q&As & stories middle: 48.2.

Threaded replies

46% of comments reply to another comment

LowerHigher

Higher than 36% of subreddits. Q&As & stories middle: 48%.

Text posts

100% of new posts are text rather than links or media

LowerHigher

Higher than 99% of subreddits. Q&As & stories middle: 100%.

Activity per contributor

1.8 posts and comments per unique contributor each week

LowerHigher

Higher than 17% of subreddits. Q&As & stories middle: 2.7.

Most active 1%

4.6% of posts come from the busiest 1% of posting accounts

LowerHigher

Higher than 36% of subreddits. Q&As & stories middle: 4.7%.

Participation

0.7 unique contributors in the latest week for every 1,000 members

LowerHigher

Higher than 9% of subreddits. Q&As & stories middle: 9.3.

How contributions landPosts and comments by score
r/confessionAverage subreddit
Share of posts and comments0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%0–1: 58%58%0–12–3: 20%20%2–34–7: 9%9%4–78–15: 5.6%5.6%8–1516–31: 3.3%3.3%16–3132–127: 2.9%2.9%32–127128–511: 0.9%0.9%128–511512–2K: 0.3%0.3%512–2K2K+: <0.1%<0.1%2K+Score (upvotes minus downvotes)Download this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNGShare of posts and comments0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%0–1: 58%0-12–3: 20%2-34–7: 9%4-78–15: 5.6%8-1516–31: 3.3%16-3132–127: 2.9%32-127128–511: 0.9%128-511512–2K: 0.3%512-2K2K+: <0.1%2K+Score (upvotes minus downvotes)Download this chart as a PNG imagePNG

Score is upvotes minus downvotes a day or more after the post or comment was made, over the same twelve weeks. Outlined bars show the average mix across every subreddit on Oscylo.

Against its category

r/confession beside every Q&As & stories subreddit

Posts and comments in r/confession are −12.7% year over year. The middle Q&As & stories subreddit is at +57.3%.

Year-on-year changeEvery Q&As & stories subreddit, posts and comments year over year
−75%−50%−25%0+25%+50%+100%+200%+400%Middle +57.3%r/AskReddit: +57.3%r/AmItheAsshole: −2.6%r/AITAH: −70.2%r/NoStupidQuestions: +76.8%r/unpopularopinion: +49.2%r/AmIOverreacting: −61.6%r/MaliciousCompliance: −16.6%r/BestofRedditorUpdates: −16.8%r/PeterExplainsTheJoke: +114.8%r/Advice: +10.5%r/whatisit: +63.4%r/explainitpeter: +77.0%r/askanything: 24×r/luftablassen: +68.9%r/identifyThisForMe: +264.3%r/AskRedditr/AmItheAssholer/AITAHr/NoStupidQuestionsr/unpopularopinionr/AmIOverreactingr/MaliciousCompliancer/BestofRedditorUpdatesr/PeterExplainsTheJoker/Advicer/confession −12.7%Posts and comments, year over yearDownload this chart as a PNG imageDownload PNG−75%−25%0+25%+100%+400%Middle +57.3%r/AskReddit: +57.3%r/AmItheAsshole: −2.6%r/AITAH: −70.2%r/NoStupidQuestions: +76.8%r/unpopularopinion: +49.2%r/AmIOverreacting: −61.6%r/MaliciousCompliance: −16.6%r/BestofRedditorUpdates: −16.8%r/PeterExplainsTheJoke: +114.8%r/Advice: +10.5%r/whatisit: +63.4%r/explainitpeter: +77.0%r/askanything: 24×r/luftablassen: +68.9%r/identifyThisForMe: +264.3%r/AskRedditr/AmItheAssholer/AITAHr/NoStupidQuestionsr/unpopularopinionr/confession −12.7%Year over yearDownload this chart as a PNG imagePNG

Each subreddit's newest four weeks of posts and comments against the same four weeks a year earlier. The scale stretches near zero and compresses the extremes, and changes beyond +400% sit at the edge.

Data and sharing

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Weekly posts, comments, unique contributors and members for r/confession, one row per week across the three years shown here.

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