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A Place for us Nightowls to converse at night when everyone else is sleeping. Challenges that involves going to sleep late, waking up late, how it affects relationships, stigmas and general conversations for us Night Owls. Share stories and insights.

69k subscribers233 posts / mo in Sep 2026189 authors / mosince 2010

r/NightOwls has 69k members (+64% over the last 12 months). It gets about 233 posts a month from 189 people. Top topics: Night Shift Sleep Issues, Shift Work and Night Shift Challenges.

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Size and growth

How r/NightOwls has grown

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Subscriber growth

Subscribers over time

+64%in 12 months · +25% in 3 months · +8.4% in 1 month
Oct 202668k
Growing68k subscribers
Data since Mar 2018Live · through Oct 2026
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Monthly activity

Posts, comments and authors per month

+159%vs Sep 2025 · +18% last 3 months vs the 3 before
Sep 2026233
BusierPeaked at 396 in Jun 2026
Data through Sep 2026 · October usually lands mid-November

What people talk about

Topics and brands on r/NightOwls

Top topics

Share of the subreddit's posts

  1. Night Shift Sleep Issues0.8%
  2. Shift Work0.6%
  3. Night Shift Challenges0.6%
  4. Night Drive Playlists0.6%
  5. Studying Late Nights0.5%

Brands people mention

Most-mentioned brands and sites, last 12 months

  1. Spotify
  2. TikTok
  3. Medium
  4. Twitch

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Everything else about r/NightOwls

Posting rules and account requirements, how often posts get removed, who writes here (age, gender, countries), what people ask for, how they talk, and related subreddits — all in the full report.

Posts and activity for Sep 2026. Members from Reddit's subscriber counts. Read from the same data the app runs on. Our research