http://maxcandocia.com/article/2017/Jul/29/what-time-to-post-to-reddit/
created by antirabbit on 30/07/2017 at 11:46 UTC
14897 upvotes, 44 top-level comments (showing 25)
Comment by MotivationDedication at 30/07/2017 at 11:56 UTC
6702 upvotes, 19 direct replies
Highest percentage is between 6-8am on Sunday.
This is posted between 6-8am on a Sunday.....
Hmmm....
Comment by zonination at 30/07/2017 at 13:46 UTC
411 upvotes, 4 direct replies
This is a popular topic here. However, instead of scraping, these guys used Reddit Bigquery[1]:
1: https://www.reddit.com/r/bigquery/comments/3cej2b/17_billion_reddit_comments_loaded_on_bigquery
OP, if you want some quicker turnaround on the scraping, a lot of the work has already been done and archived into Bigquery. TMYK
2: http://minimaxir.com/2015/10/reddit-bigquery/
Comment by [deleted] at 30/07/2017 at 13:47 UTC*
213 upvotes, 4 direct replies
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Comment by [deleted] at 30/07/2017 at 12:02 UTC*
92 upvotes, 4 direct replies
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Comment by All_is_an_innuendo at 30/07/2017 at 17:12 UTC
115 upvotes, 2 direct replies
It seems the worst time to post is on Wednesday from 12-2am, unless you're /r/me_irl, in which case you just post this frog[1] and you basically get free upvotes.
1: http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/091/264/665.jpg
Comment by busfahrer at 30/07/2017 at 18:29 UTC
30 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Living in Europe, I've given up completely on posting new content. Reddit's algorithm heavily favors early comments.
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1 upvotes, 1 direct replies
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Comment by shontamona at 30/07/2017 at 15:44 UTC
21 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I have always wondered whether someone did this! It's peculiar to observe from India as most of my posts tend to be either late night or early morning and the latter tends to get quicker responses/upvotes etc as I guess it's still nighttime in the West (more users, leisure time Reddit etc).
Comment by adambard at 30/07/2017 at 20:19 UTC
18 upvotes, 2 direct replies
For those of you who don't want to wake up early/stay up late to hit this sweet spot, I wrote Later for Reddit[1] to deal with that problem.
1: https://dashboard.laterforreddit.com/analysis/?subreddit=dataisbeautiful&threshold=5
Comment by [deleted] at 30/07/2017 at 15:57 UTC
49 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Why did you not use the most subscribed subreddits, like /r/askreddit or /r/explainlikeimfive?
What drove the decision to choose those 6, which are far less subscribed?
Comment by [deleted] at 30/07/2017 at 17:54 UTC*
7 upvotes, 2 direct replies
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Comment by RedTailedLizerd at 30/07/2017 at 18:24 UTC
7 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I think you also need to take into account the sub.
Before I got banned, all my top posts on braveryjerk were done around midnight.
That time probably also works well on incels.
Comment by [deleted] at 31/07/2017 at 00:09 UTC
7 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This is interesting, but it would be a lot more useful if the time zone used was stated relative to UTC. American Central Time doesn't mean anything to anyone outside of America, while everybody should know their time zone relative to UTC.
Comment by NoGoodUserName999999 at 30/07/2017 at 17:30 UTC
14 upvotes, 0 direct replies
If you really want to hit the front page just buy some upvotes like all the corporations and propaganda pushers do.
Comment by OsamaBinNoodles at 30/07/2017 at 17:04 UTC
9 upvotes, 2 direct replies
Someone should make one for Instagram...cause honestly, that's how I decide when to post. I usually post around 10-11:30 since I've noticed that's when I get the most likes. Someone should show me some data to either support or reject my observation
Comment by JGar453 at 30/07/2017 at 21:23 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
But now everybody will post at 6-8 and then the data will be ruined. Shouldn't have given your secrets to getting karma
Comment by r3ll1sh at 30/07/2017 at 22:33 UTC
5 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Later for Reddit[1] is also useful and you can find the best time for specific subreddits too.
1: https://laterforreddit.com/
Comment by VersChorsVers at 30/07/2017 at 16:08 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Once all the karma hoes see this and change their posting habits to get more votes that'll drop the percentage for early mornings and leave more of reddit for me to lurk in peace.
Comment by NAT0fan at 30/07/2017 at 15:42 UTC
11 upvotes, 1 direct replies
So this comment will be about 20% worse off than the 23 or so before it, just because it's 10:40 CT and not 7:40 CT.
Comment by chud555 at 30/07/2017 at 19:11 UTC
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Looking through your code, I am realizing I need to brush up on python on a bit, you know what you are doing. I really like this:
good_args = [a for a in dir(args) if not re.match('^_.*',a)]
But I don't like this:
file=open(filename,'r')
objs=[]
while True:
nextobj=re.sub('[\n\r]','',file.readline())
if nextobj=='':
break
else:
objs+=[nextobj]
return(objs)
I freaking love reviewing other people's code! Anyway:
obis = []
with open(filename, 'r') as file:
for line in file:
obis.append(line)
return obis
Or something like that, should work, right? Or are the files from different platforms with multiple types of line returns? That shouldn't matter, python takes care of that... Anyway, I only looked at one of your files from git. Awesome job :)
Comment by Izdzl at 30/07/2017 at 16:03 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
I'd add "Further research needed to develop evidence-based posting guidelines for non-lurker redittors"
Comment by andronaut_ at 30/07/2017 at 18:23 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
This is a fascinating chart, but I'm curious-- shouldn't all the percentages average to zero? Unless a hugely disproportionate amount of content is posted from 6-8am. It looks as though if you took an average of all content posted the average post would have something like a -15% expected score, which wouldn't make sense.
Comment by InsaneThespian at 30/07/2017 at 18:48 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
The highest success I've had was on tv show subreddits after an episode airs, or game subreddits when game servers go down
Comment by tfburns at 31/07/2017 at 01:18 UTC
2 upvotes, 0 direct replies
This answer assumes you care about general trends in the Reddit submission score of the post, and that you care about that more than you care about spreading good/bad news/warnings promptly, for example.
Comment by _Koudelka at 30/07/2017 at 17:57 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
It would be interesting to see what impact knowledge of these patterns has on the patterns. I suspect it would be a minimal change as the pattern is likely a result of viewer habits rather than poster habits and the viewers have little reason to care about how well any one post does relative to another. In the other hand I have made incorrect hypotheses before...