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Your subreddit's week, posted for you.

Community Recap publishes an automatic weekly recap of your subreddit as a normal text post: top posts, the threads that actually got discussed, the best comments, who contributed most, and how the numbers moved. You pick the day, the hour and the sections.

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A Reddit app built with Devvit. Installed on a subreddit by a moderator, no browser extension and nothing to run.

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Community Recap - r/yoursubreddit (Aug 10 to Aug 16)

🎉 Milestone

The community passed 10,000 members this week.

Community highlights
  • 1 u/alex_r top contributor · 842 points
  • 2 u/mmoreno most discussed · 217 comments
  • 3 u/dana_k top comment · 391 points
By the numbers
128 Posts +12%
1,904 Comments +8%
312 People posting −3%
10,043 Members +147
Discussion

What stood out to you in the community this week?

A recap post, published and pinned automatically every week.

Illustration only. The real post looks a little different: Reddit renders it as plain markdown, so the layout follows what its post formatting allows.

What goes in the recap

Eight sections, each one switchable on its own. Sections with nothing to report are skipped, so a quiet week never produces an empty heading or an award nobody earned.

Subscriber milestones

Announces when the community crosses a round membership number: 1K, 5K, 10K and so on. It only shows up on the week it actually happens.

Community highlights

Recognizes up to three members: the top contributor by post score, the member whose post drew the most comments, and the author of the highest scoring comment of the week.

Weekly comment goal

An optional progress bar against a comment target you set, plus a streak counter for consecutive weeks of membership growth. Stays hidden unless you set a target.

Top posts

The highest scoring posts of the week, ranked, with the score and the author next to each one.

Most discussed

The posts that pulled the most comments, which are very often not the same posts that scored highest. Both lists together tell you more than either alone.

Top comments

The best comments from the week, pulled from the top posts, so good replies get credit instead of disappearing under the parent thread.

By the numbers

New posts, comments on those posts, how many people posted, and total members, each one compared against the previous week so you see the direction, not just the number.

Discussion prompt

A closing question to invite replies, so the recap starts a conversation instead of just sitting there. Write your own or use the built-in one.

Why you would want this

Writing the weekly recap by hand gets old fast

Plenty of communities already post one. It means scrolling the week, tallying scores, copying links, and doing it again next Monday. Community Recap does the same job on a schedule and you keep the editorial control through the settings.

Good posts and good members go unnoticed

The best comment of the week is usually buried three levels deep in a thread nobody revisits. The recap surfaces top posts, most discussed posts and top comments, so contributions get seen by the whole subreddit.

You cannot tell if the community is actually growing

The stats section compares posts, comments, unique posters and members against the previous week. Not a vanity number: a direction, published in the open where members can see it too.

You stay in control

The app schedules itself on install, but nothing is out of your hands. Three actions live in your subreddit's mod menu, and every section, the title, the flair and the timing are settings you own.

The recap is posted by the app account, not by your moderator account.

Preview weekly digest

Builds the digest with current data and sends it to your Reddit inbox as a private message. Nothing is posted, nothing is saved, so you can run it as often as you like.

Publish weekly digest now

Builds and posts the digest immediately, then takes you straight to it. Useful for a first run without waiting for the schedule.

Apply digest schedule

Re-reads your settings and moves the scheduled job. Run it after you change the day or the hour.

Every setting, and what it defaults to

Install it and it works with no configuration. These are the knobs if you want them.

SettingDefaultNotes
Day of the week Monday When the digest is published
Hour (UTC) 9 0 to 23. The digest covers the seven days before this moment
Items per section 5 1 to 10 entries in each ranked list
Post title template Community Recap - r/{{subreddit}} ({{dateRange}}) Supports {{subreddit}}, {{dateRange}} and {{week}}
Sections to include All except the comment goal Turn individual sections off
Post flair Empty Must match a post flair that already exists in your subreddit
Discussion prompt Empty Empty uses the built-in question
Weekly comment goal 0 0 hides the goal section
Sticky the digest On Stickies the new digest and unstickies the previous one
Highlight slot Slot 2 Which community highlight slot the recap claims
Assign winner flair Off Overwrites existing user flair. Leave off unless you want it

It stores almost nothing

To compare this week against last week the app has to remember last week. That is all it keeps, scoped to your subreddit: a snapshot of the aggregate counts, the post ID of the previous recap so it can be unstickied, and the ID of the scheduled job.

No personal data is collected, nothing is stored about individual redditors beyond the usernames that appear in the published post, and the app makes no requests to any service outside Reddit.

What is stored
  • Weekly aggregate counts (posts, comments, posters, members)
  • Post ID of the last recap
  • ID of the scheduled job
What is not
  • Personal data of any kind
  • Per-user records or history
  • Any call to a service outside Reddit

Questions

How do I install Community Recap on my subreddit?

Open the app listing on developers.reddit.com and install it on a subreddit you moderate. It schedules itself immediately with the default settings, Mondays at 09:00 UTC, and publishes the first recap at the next occurrence of that time. You can also publish one right away from the mod menu.

Do I have to be a moderator?

Yes. Only moderators can install an app on a subreddit, and the settings and menu actions are moderator-only. The recap itself is a normal text post that everyone in the community can read and reply to.

Can I choose when it posts and what goes in it?

Yes to both. You pick the day of the week and the hour in UTC, how many items appear in each ranked list, and which sections are included. Every section can be turned off on its own. You can also set the post title template, a post flair, and your own discussion prompt.

What happens on a quiet week with nothing to report?

Sections with nothing to report are skipped entirely, so you never get an empty heading or an award nobody earned. If the community did not cross a milestone that week, the milestone section simply does not appear.

Does it collect any personal data?

No. It stores a weekly snapshot of aggregate counts (posts, comments, people posting, members) so next week has something to compare against, plus the post ID of the last recap and the ID of the scheduled job. Nothing is stored about individual redditors beyond the usernames that appear in the published post, and the app makes no requests to any service outside Reddit.

Will it overwrite my members’ user flair?

Only if you deliberately turn that on. The winner flair option is off by default. When enabled it sets a flair on the members named in the highlights section, which replaces any flair they already had, so leave it off if your community uses user flair for anything else.

Is it accurate on very large subreddits?

Comment counts cover comments on posts created during that week, so replies to older threads are not counted. Very busy subreddits can exceed the number of posts a single run can read. When that happens the recap says so in the stats section, and the numbers should be read as a lower bound.

How much does it cost?

It is free. There is no paid tier, no account to create beyond your Reddit one, and no upsell inside the app.

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Give your community its week back.

Free, scheduled, and skippable on a quiet week. Install it on a subreddit you moderate.

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