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r/homelab subreddit stats
Posts, comments, unique posters, link rates, and activity patterns from the last month, updated daily.
Updated . Reporting period: Oct 6, 2026–Nov 6, 2026 (UTC).
From October 6, 2026 to November 6, 2026, 18,177 users on r/homelab made 2,741 posts and 50,615 comments, or about 86 posts/day and 1,589 comments/day. The subreddit averaged 18.5 comments per post; 37.5% of posts and 5.2% of comments contained links. Its Health Score was 34.1/100, meaning unique posters divided by total posts and comments. The top 1% of users produced 6.3% of posts and 15.6% of comments. Activity is measured in UTC: the most active hour was 19:00 (1.4x avg), the most active day was Tuesday (1.2x avg), and normalized weekend volume was 0.90x weekday volume.
Daily activity in r/homelab
Daily totals combine posts and comments, grouped by UTC date. The lighter final bar shows a partial day through Nov 6 at 20:31 UTC.
Activity by day and hour
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Calculated . Based on comments from Oct 16 through Oct 22, 2026 (UTC). Results are refreshed after one month.
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