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r/sysadmin 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, 19,053 users on r/sysadmin made 1,765 posts and 59,184 comments, or about 56 posts/day and 1,862 comments/day. The subreddit averaged 33.5 comments per post; 8.7% of posts and 3.0% of comments contained links. Its Health Score was 31.3/100, meaning unique posters divided by total posts and comments. The top 1% of users produced 5.8% of posts and 14.5% of comments. Activity is measured in UTC: the most active hour was 15:00 (1.6x avg), the most active day was Thursday (1.3x avg), and normalized weekend volume was 0.48x weekday volume.
Daily activity in r/sysadmin
Daily totals combine posts and comments, grouped by UTC date. The lighter final bar shows a partial day through Nov 6 at 18:43 UTC.
Activity by day and hour
Each square is one hour, shown in UTC.
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