Three years, week by week
Weekly activity in r/writing
Three years of weekly history. Download any chart as a PNG.
Week ending Sep 27, 20264,904−57.6% on the same week a year earlier
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.
Week ending Aug 30, 20261,841−64.8% on the same week a year earlier
Accounts that posted or commented in the week, each counted once. Updated monthly.
Week ending Sep 27, 20263.43M+5.7% on the same week a year earlier
The member count Reddit shows for the community, read once a week.
Week ending Sep 27, 2026Weekly posts266−72.5% on the same week a year earlierWeekly comments4,638−56.3% on the same week a year earlier
Posts on the left scale, comments on the right. Each series is auto-scaled.
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| Community | Indexed | Since Oct 8, 2023 | Since the week before |
|---|---|---|---|
| r/writing | 33.6 | −66.4% | +11.0% from Sep 20 |
| r/comics | 190.7 | +90.7% | +15.3% from Sep 20 |
Public posts plus comments in each complete Monday-to-Sunday week, UTC. Indexed, each line reads 100 on its first point in the range, so communities of very different sizes share one axis.
Activity pattern
Why r/writing is classified as Cooling
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.
Contributions and the number of contributing accounts in r/writing both trend downward across their displayed periods.
How the label is read
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.
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.
Week ending Sep 27, 2026Newest 52 weeks4,904The 52 weeks before11.6K
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/writing 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/writing among every subreddit on Oscylo; the diamond marks the middle of its topic.
11.5 comments for each new post
Higher than 29% of subreddits. Reading & writing middle: 20.4.
39% of comments reply to another comment
Higher than 12% of subreddits. Reading & writing middle: 52%.
99.8% of new posts are text rather than links or media
Higher than 99% of subreddits. Reading & writing middle: 38%.
2.3 posts and comments per unique contributor each week
Higher than 51% of subreddits. Reading & writing middle: 2.4.
4% of posts come from the busiest 1% of posting accounts
Higher than 26% of subreddits. Reading & writing middle: 5.8%.
0.5 unique contributors in the latest week for every 1,000 members
Higher than 7% of subreddits. Reading & writing middle: 5.1.
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/writing beside every Reading & writing subreddit
Posts and comments in r/writing are −65.0% year over year. The middle Reading & writing subreddit is at +11.5%.
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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Every week as a spreadsheet
Weekly posts, comments, unique contributors and members for r/writing, one row per week across the three years shown here.
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Oscylo. r/writing weekly activity. oscylo.com/sub/writing, weeks through Sep 27, 2026.
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