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r/professors subreddit stats
Posts, comments, unique posters, link rates, and activity patterns from the last month, updated daily.
Updated . Reporting period: Oct 5, 2026–Nov 5, 2026 (UTC).
From October 5, 2026 to November 5, 2026, 7,001 users on r/professors made 971 posts and 40,618 comments, or about 31 posts/day and 1,279 comments/day. The subreddit averaged 41.8 comments per post; 4.1% of posts and 1.2% of comments contained links. Its Health Score was 16.8/100, meaning unique posters divided by total posts and comments. The top 1% of users produced 10.9% of posts and 16.9% of comments. Activity is measured in UTC: the most active hour was 01:00 (1.5x avg), the most active day was Wednesday (1.1x avg), and normalized weekend volume was 0.76x weekday volume.
Daily activity in r/professors
Daily totals combine posts and comments, grouped by UTC date. The lighter final bar shows a partial day through Nov 5 at 18:07 UTC.
Activity by day and hour
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Calculated . Based on comments from Oct 25 through Oct 31, 2026 (UTC). Results are refreshed after one month.
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