Community profile
r/gaming
Reddit's largest general gaming community, where activity moves with major releases, showcases, and award events.
Fixed weekly detail
A year of r/gaming, week by week.
Complete Monday–Sunday totals on a consistent window, so a spike can be compared with the community’s own history rather than a shifting average.
Each point is a complete Monday–Sunday UTC total. Coverage: Aug 4, 2025 – Jul 27, 2026.
Each point is a complete Monday–Sunday UTC total. Coverage: Jun 30, 2025 – Jun 22, 2026.
Reach × participation
Who visits, and who takes part.
Visitors measure reach; contributions measure participation. Reading them on one timeline shows whether attention and activity move together. One thing to expect: the visitor figure is a 28-day rolling average, so it reacts to a burst of activity two to three weeks later than the fixed-week contribution totals above. Visitor collection began in September 2025, which is where this chart starts.
Visitors: past-seven-day unique reach on a 28-day rolling average, one observed reading per week. Contributions: complete Monday–Sunday UTC totals. Both series cover the same span, from Sep 13, 2025, the first day of visitor collection, through the week ending Aug 2, 2026, the latest complete contribution week; newer visitor readings appear in the header above, and the full 52-week contribution history is in the chart above. The two measures use separate scales, so compare the shapes rather than the heights. Because the visitor figure averages the trailing 28 days, it responds to a swing in activity two to three weeks after the fixed-week contribution series does; when a visitor peak shows up a few weeks behind a contribution peak, that’s the smoothing.
The long view
Membership, month by month.
Five years of member counts for r/gaming, one point per month.
One point per month. The vertical axis does not start at zero; it is scaled to make the trend readable.
Adjacent communities
Read it against its neighbors.
Size alone doesn’t explain activity patterns. These showcase communities make useful contrasts.
This profile shows the public showcase window. The archive behind it holds a longer history for r/gaming, and 2.4M complete community-weeks across the wider dataset. Beta access is for questions that need that depth.
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