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r/selfhosted 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, 13,808 users on r/selfhosted made 2,526 posts and 39,289 comments, or about 79 posts/day and 1,231 comments/day. The subreddit averaged 15.6 comments per post; 26.3% of posts and 8.0% of comments contained links. Its Health Score was 33.0/100, meaning unique posters divided by total posts and comments. The top 1% of users produced 8.7% of posts and 20.3% of comments. Activity is measured in UTC: the most active hour was 15:00 (1.5x avg), the most active day was Tuesday (1.1x avg), and normalized weekend volume was 0.96x weekday volume.
Daily activity in r/selfhosted
Daily totals combine posts and comments, grouped by UTC date. The lighter final bar shows a partial day through Nov 6 at 21:51 UTC.
Activity by day and hour
Each square is one hour, shown in UTC.
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