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r/AskHistorians has 2,922,230 members and gets about 64.5 new posts a day. The best time to post is Tuesday around 8pm US Eastern.
- Members
- 2.9M
- Posts per day
- 64.5
- Avg comments
- 5.0
- Created
- 2011
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Best time to post on r/AskHistorians
When this month's top 100 posts went up, weighted by score. Times are US Eastern.
- #1
Tue 8pm
- #2
Tue 5pm
- #3
Sun 7pm
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Top posts this month
- My toddler recently discovered r/AskHistorians and is eager to get some historical perspective on life's most pressing issues. In the time and place you study, what was the situation with respect to pacifiers?▲ 3K
- I'm an ordinary person in 2026 who is tired of this question format, would it have been possible to convince the moderators to ban it, maybe temporarily?▲ 3K
- I'm a Greek man in classical greece and I walk into my wife fucking a woman from our village: While I don't view lesbian sex as sex, would I still feel cheated on and betrayed? Would her actions be seen as wrong?▲ 3K
- When and Why Did Americans Start Dressing So Much More Casually Than People From Other Countries?▲ 2K
- AMA: I am Bryant Simon, a Temple University-based toilet scholar, here to talk about my new book, For Customers Only, covering the fraught history of public bathrooms in the US. Ask me about studying bathrooms and how toilets have made the US less equal!▲ 1K
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