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r/fivethirtyeight subreddit stats
Posts, comments, unique posters, link rates, and activity patterns from the last month, updated daily.
Updated . Reporting period: Sep 28, 2026–Oct 28, 2026 (UTC).
From September 28, 2026 to October 28, 2026, 5,365 users on r/fivethirtyeight made 1,246 posts and 84,929 comments, or about 41 posts/day and 2,777 comments/day. The subreddit averaged 68.2 comments per post; 80.5% of posts and 5.8% of comments contained links. Its Health Score was 6.2/100, meaning unique posters divided by total posts and comments. The top 1% of users produced 26.6% of posts and 30.1% of comments. Activity is measured in UTC: the most active hour was 16:00 (1.7x avg), the most active day was Thursday (1.2x avg), and normalized weekend volume was 0.67x weekday volume.
Daily activity in r/fivethirtyeight
Daily totals combine posts and comments, grouped by UTC date. The lighter final bar shows a partial day through Oct 28 at 14:01 UTC.
Activity by day and hour
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