Weekly release
Posts published 9–15 Mar 2026 on Reddit, Bluesky, YouTube, Hacker News, arXiv, Google News and Exa, each measured on its own: 97 readings.
Published 2 Oct 2026. Its figures never change. Cite it with its permanent link. What these states mean
March eraRebuilt from archives, with live capture from 7 Mar to 31 May.
This release’s conditions
No prose is stored for this release.
The first place on each of the two platforms that count people, in its reading’s own words. Two platforms, two rankings; nothing here is added across them.
12,479 distinct people on Reddit
On Reddit, 12,479 distinct people posted about Claude between 9 and 15 March 2026: 19,628 posts, an estimated 7.28% of that week's Reddit posts about AI, leaving out templated automated posts (99.8% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Claude · Reddit · posts from 9–15 Mar 2026 · n 19,628 posts · author coverage 99.8% · 7 days: 7 backfilled
42 distinct people on Hacker News
On Hacker News, 42 distinct people posted about Claude between 9 and 15 March 2026: 42 posts, 12.50% of that week's Hacker News posts about AI (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Claude · Hacker News · posts from 9–15 Mar 2026 · n 42 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 backfilled
Each card is the lead measured statement of one platform’s first place: the stored statement whose figures include that platform’s people count, shown verbatim. Platforms rank separately; a subject leading two platforms appears twice.
Every subject’s place on each platform that counts people, side by side. Read down a column for one platform’s ranking; read across a row to see how differently the platforms rank one subject.
| Rank | Subject · lineage | Reddit ▼ sortedn 269,667 postsbar: people, #1 = 12,479 | Hacker Newsn 336 postsbar: people, #1 = 42 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ClaudeAnthropic | 12,479#1 | 42#1 |
| 2 | ChatGPTOpenAI | 6,785#2 | Hidden · n 9 people: n 9 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 3 | GeminiGoogle DeepMind | 3,591#3 | Hidden · n 5 people: n 5 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 4 | Claude CodeAnthropic › Claude | 3,133#4 | 28#2 |
| 5 | GPTOpenAI | 2,676#5 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 6 | QwenAlibaba | 2,055#6 | Hidden · n 6 people: n 6 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 7 | GrokxAI | 1,852#7 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 8 | CodexOpenAI | 1,166#8 | Hidden · n 7 people: n 7 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 9 | Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft AI | 803#9 | Hidden · n 4 people: n 4 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 10 | DeepSeekDeepSeek | 771#10 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 11 | GitHub CopilotMicrosoft AI | 482#11 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 12 | LlamaMeta | 450#12 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 13 | Claude CoworkAnthropic › Claude | 442#13 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 14 | SoraOpenAI | 427#14 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 15 | Claude appAnthropic › Claude | 380#15 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
People on Reddit · n 269,667 posts#1 = 12,479
People on Hacker News · n 336 posts#1 = 42
Distinct people who posted about each subject, 9–15 Mar 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z; published. Each column is scaled to its own #1 and ranks on its own; nothing is added across platforms, because one person can post on several. Rows follow Reddit, the default platform. Hatched cells are hidden, never shown as a number. The stored reason, e.g. Hacker News ChatGPT: “n 9 people, below the threshold of 20 people”. Each column’s n 269,667 posts on Reddit and 336 on Hacker News.
Posts, no peoplearXiv, Google News and Exa are not ranked. Article sources have no authors, so people aren’t counted. Posts per subject, largest first:
arXiv n 414 posts · 85 subjects
GPT 16, Qwen 14, Claude 4, DeepSeek 4 posts, and 81 more subjects
Google News n not recorded · 85 subjects
Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 9 and 15 March 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there’s no figure to show.
Exa n not recorded · 85 subjects
Not counted this week: Exa has no day between 9 and 15 March 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there’s no figure to show.
The same subjects one week later, on the platform with enough people. Grok grew on Reddit while Claude eased.
Reddit · people per subject
Distinct people per subject on each release’s board, for subjects with n ≥ 100 posts in both weeks (30 on Reddit), as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z; published. Each panel on its own scale; lines join one subject’s two weeks. Each week’s n is its platform’s posts: Reddit n 269,667 and 314,344 posts. 2026-W11 and 2026-W12 follow on from each other, so their lines are joined.
When a post was written and when AIDRAN caught it are different days. For each platform, what was published each day against what was captured that day, and how much of the capture was catching up.What was published each day against what AIDRAN captured that day, and how much of it was catching up.
13 Mar: published 151,376 · captured 3,610 · late 5
own scale, top = 163,904
11 Mar: published 6,394 · captured 6,325 · late 3
own scale, top = 6,436
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 15
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 226
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 100
10 Mar: published 365 · captured 35 · low capture
own scale, top = 365
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 71
Per platform and day, 9–15 Mar 2026: posts published that day (published_n), posts captured that day whatever their publish date (captured_n), and the part of those captured late (late_captured_n), from conditions.coverage, computed 2 Oct 2026 05:23Z. Each platform on its own scale. A flag bar marks a partial, low-capture or late-heavy day. Not-started days show published only: those posts were captured later and do count.9–15 Mar 2026, from conditions.coverage, computed 2 Oct 2026 05:23Z. Each platform on its own scale; a flag bar marks a partial, low-capture or late-heavy day.
Families and their products on Reddit. A post about Claude Code usually also counts for Claude, so the bars sit together and are never summed.Families and their products on Reddit, side by side and never summed.
The family entry already includes its products; not added.
› Gemini API (Google AI Studio) 182 · Gemini CLI 112 · Gemini app 71
› Qwen Code 36
› Grok app 216
People on Reddit, 9–15 Mar 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z, all on Reddit’s one scale (#1 = 12,479). Groups follow each subject’s stored lineage.
Posts, threads and distinct people on each platform: the context for every share in this release. Each platform stands alone.The context for every share. Each platform stands alone.
| Platform | Posts | Threads | People | Author cov. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hidden | hidden | |||
| Bluesky | hidden | hidden | hidden | |
| YouTube | hidden | hidden | hidden | |
| Hacker News | 100.0% | |||
| arXiv | not applicable | 0.0% | ||
| Google News | hidden | hidden | not applicable | |
| Exa | hidden | hidden | not applicable |
9–15 Mar 2026 · as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z · counted from posts’ own data · no platform coverage-limited. People count distinct platform identities and are never added across platforms, so there is no total row. People are not applicable on article sources. Reddit’s posts include its comments. Each figure’s n 269,667 posts on Reddit, not recorded on Bluesky, not recorded on YouTube, 336 on Hacker News, 414 on arXiv, not recorded on Google News and not recorded on Exa.
Each subject against its previous stored reading under the same method, share and people, platform by platform. Each has its own page, for its size: one cell a subject and platform.
What AIDRAN was collecting on each platform, each day of the week. A day can hold posts even when collection hadn’t started: they were captured later.What AIDRAN was collecting on each platform, each day.
| Platform | Mon 9 | Tue 10 | Wed 11 | Thu 12 | Fri 13 | Sat 14 | Sun 15 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 9 Mar: backfilled | Tue 10 Mar: backfilled | Wed 11 Mar: backfilled | Thu 12 Mar: backfilled | Fri 13 Mar: backfilled | Sat 14 Mar: backfilled | Sun 15 Mar: backfilled | |
| Bluesky | Mon 9 Mar: earlier method | Tue 10 Mar: earlier method | Wed 11 Mar: earlier method | Thu 12 Mar: earlier method | Fri 13 Mar: earlier method | Sat 14 Mar: earlier method | Sun 15 Mar: earlier method |
| YouTube | Mon 9 Mar: not started | Tue 10 Mar: not started | Wed 11 Mar: not started | Thu 12 Mar: not started | Fri 13 Mar: not started | Sat 14 Mar: not started | Sun 15 Mar: not started |
| Hacker News | Mon 9 Mar: backfilled | Tue 10 Mar: backfilled | Wed 11 Mar: backfilled | Thu 12 Mar: backfilled | Fri 13 Mar: backfilled | Sat 14 Mar: backfilled | Sun 15 Mar: backfilled |
| arXiv | Mon 9 Mar: backfilled | Tue 10 Mar: backfilled | Wed 11 Mar: backfilled | Thu 12 Mar: backfilled | Fri 13 Mar: backfilled | Sat 14 Mar: backfilled | Sun 15 Mar: backfilled |
| Google News | low captureMon 9 Mar: earlier method, low capture | low captureTue 10 Mar: earlier method, low capture | Wed 11 Mar: earlier method | Thu 12 Mar: earlier method | Fri 13 Mar: earlier method | low captureSat 14 Mar: earlier method, low capture | Sun 15 Mar: earlier method |
| Exa | Mon 9 Mar: not started | Tue 10 Mar: not started | Wed 11 Mar: not started | Thu 12 Mar: not started | Fri 13 Mar: not started | Sat 14 Mar: not started | Sun 15 Mar: not started |
Coverage computed 2 Oct 2026 05:23Z · as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z · frozen with the release, never recomputed. Each day opens what it holds.A bar marks a flagged day.
Published 2 Oct 2026. Its figures never change. Cite it with its permanent link.
AIDRAN. Release 2026-W11.
Permanent link /releases/2026-W11
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None. No reading in this release has been revised or corrected.