Weekly release
Posts published 16–22 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.
11,928 distinct people on Reddit
On Reddit, 11,928 distinct people posted about Claude between 16 and 22 March 2026: 19,172 posts, an estimated 6.10% 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 16–22 Mar 2026 · n 19,172 posts · author coverage 99.8% · 7 days: 7 backfilled, 1 late heavy
34 distinct people on Hacker News
On Hacker News, 34 distinct people posted about Claude between 16 and 22 March 2026: 34 posts, 11.18% of that week's Hacker News posts about AI (100.0% of these posts had an identifiable author).
Claude · Hacker News · posts from 16–22 Mar 2026 · n 34 posts · author coverage 100.0% · 7 days: 7 backfilled, 1 partial
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 314,344 postsbar: people, #1 = 11,928 | Hacker Newsn 304 postsbar: people, #1 = 34 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ClaudeAnthropic | 11,928#1 | 34#1 |
| 2 | ChatGPTOpenAI | 6,383#2 | Hidden · n 8 people: n 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 3 | GeminiGoogle DeepMind | 3,600#3 | Hidden · n 7 people: n 7 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 4 | Claude CodeAnthropic › Claude | 3,263#4 | 20#2 |
| 5 | GPTOpenAI | 2,457#5 | Hidden · n 6 people: n 6 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 6 | GrokxAI | 2,238#6 | Hidden · n 3 people: n 3 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 7 | QwenAlibaba | 2,049#7 | Hidden · n 3 people: n 3 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 8 | CodexOpenAI | 1,239#8 | Hidden · n 4 people: n 4 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 9 | Microsoft CopilotMicrosoft AI | 897#9 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 10 | DeepSeekDeepSeek | 640#10 | Hidden · n 2 people: n 2 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 11 | SoraOpenAI | 504#11 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 12 | LlamaMeta | 483#12 | Hidden · n 1 people: n 1 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 13 | GLMZhipu AI | 439#13 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 14 | GitHub CopilotMicrosoft AI | 424#14 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
| 15 | Claude CoworkAnthropic › Claude | 404#15 | Hidden · n 0 people: n 0 people, below the threshold of 20 people. |
People on Reddit · n 314,344 posts#1 = 11,928
People on Hacker News · n 304 posts#1 = 34
Distinct people who posted about each subject, 16–22 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 8 people, below the threshold of 20 people”. Each column’s n 314,344 posts on Reddit and 304 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 422 posts · 85 subjects
Qwen 17, GPT 13, Claude 10, Llama 10 posts, and 81 more subjects
Google News n not recorded · 85 subjects
Not counted this week: Google News has no day between 16 and 22 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 16 and 22 March 2026 that AIDRAN counts, so there’s no figure to show.
The same subjects one week later, on the platform with enough people. Sora grew on Reddit while Qwen 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 314,344 and 304,840 posts. 2026-W12 and 2026-W13 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.
16 Mar: published 159,865 · captured 34,388 · late 17,291 · late heavy
own scale, top = 179,534
17 Mar: published 8,281 · captured 8,228
own scale, top = 8,281
20 Mar: published 1,062 · captured 1,167
own scale, top = 1,167
19 Mar: published 219 · captured 24 · partial
own scale, top = 219
19 Mar: published 161 · captured 121 · partial
own scale, top = 176
19 Mar: published 324 · captured 4,122 · late 3,943 · late heavy
own scale, top = 4,122
No capture this week: collection hadn’t started. Posts published on these days were counted from later captures.
own scale, top = 62
Per platform and day, 16–22 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.16–22 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) 269 · Gemini CLI 112 · Gemini app 66
› Grok app 202
› Qwen Code 44
People on Reddit, 16–22 Mar 2026, as of 25 Sep 2026 19:30Z, all on Reddit’s one scale (#1 = 11,928). 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 |
16–22 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 314,344 posts on Reddit, not recorded on Bluesky, not recorded on YouTube, 304 on Hacker News, 422 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 16 | Tue 17 | Wed 18 | Thu 19 | Fri 20 | Sat 21 | Sun 22 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| late heavyMon 16 Mar: backfilled, late heavy | Tue 17 Mar: backfilled | Wed 18 Mar: backfilled | Thu 19 Mar: backfilled | Fri 20 Mar: backfilled | Sat 21 Mar: backfilled | Sun 22 Mar: backfilled | |
| Bluesky | Mon 16 Mar: earlier method | Tue 17 Mar: earlier method | Wed 18 Mar: earlier method | Thu 19 Mar: earlier method | Fri 20 Mar: earlier method | Sat 21 Mar: earlier method | Sun 22 Mar: earlier method |
| YouTube | Mon 16 Mar: not started | Tue 17 Mar: not started | Wed 18 Mar: not started | partialThu 19 Mar: earlier method, partial | Fri 20 Mar: earlier method | Sat 21 Mar: earlier method | Sun 22 Mar: earlier method |
| Hacker News | Mon 16 Mar: backfilled | Tue 17 Mar: backfilled | Wed 18 Mar: backfilled | partialThu 19 Mar: backfilled, partial | Fri 20 Mar: backfilled | Sat 21 Mar: backfilled | Sun 22 Mar: backfilled |
| arXiv | Mon 16 Mar: backfilled | Tue 17 Mar: backfilled | Wed 18 Mar: backfilled | partialThu 19 Mar: backfilled, partial | Fri 20 Mar: backfilled | Sat 21 Mar: backfilled | Sun 22 Mar: backfilled |
| Google News | Mon 16 Mar: earlier method | low captureTue 17 Mar: earlier method, low capture | late heavyWed 18 Mar: earlier method, late heavy | late heavyThu 19 Mar: earlier method, late heavy | late heavyFri 20 Mar: earlier method, late heavy | late heavySat 21 Mar: earlier method, late heavy | late heavySun 22 Mar: earlier method, late heavy |
| Exa | Mon 16 Mar: not started | Tue 17 Mar: not started | Wed 18 Mar: not started | Thu 19 Mar: not started | Fri 20 Mar: not started | Sat 21 Mar: not started | Sun 22 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-W12.
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