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r/politics subreddit stats
Posts, comments, unique posters, link rates, and activity patterns from the last month, updated daily.
Updated . Reporting period: Oct 7, 2026–Nov 7, 2026 (UTC).
From October 7, 2026 to November 7, 2026, 161,405 users on r/politics made 11,148 posts and 1,042,185 comments, or about 352 posts/day and 32,902 comments/day. The subreddit averaged 93.5 comments per post; 91.5% of posts and 1.1% of comments contained links. Its Health Score was 15.3/100, meaning unique posters divided by total posts and comments. The top 1% of users produced 22.7% of posts and 21.3% of comments. Activity is measured in UTC: the most active hour was 18:00 (1.5x avg), the most active day was Wednesday (1.8x avg), and normalized weekend volume was 0.59x weekday volume.
Daily activity in r/politics
Daily totals combine posts and comments, grouped by UTC date. The lighter final bar shows a partial day through Nov 7 at 16:12 UTC.
Activity by day and hour
Each square is one hour, shown in UTC.
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Calculated . Based on comments from Oct 20 through Oct 26, 2026 (UTC). Results are refreshed after one month.
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