Sonnet 5.5
QuietPeak 24 hours to Sep 29, 17:00 UTC · 178 mentions, 37.1× a usual day
Sonnet 5.5 launched, prompting users to share coding and design demos, compare it with Opus 5.5, and debate speed, cost, and value.
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The biggest one-day jumps in mentions over the last 30 days, leaving out bot commands, common words and duplicates, sorted Breaking, then Building, then Quiet
Checked Oct 25, 00:00 UTC: no term is in a wave right now
Peak 24 hours to Sep 29, 17:00 UTC · 178 mentions, 37.1× a usual day
Sonnet 5.5 launched, prompting users to share coding and design demos, compare it with Opus 5.5, and debate speed, cost, and value.
Peak 24 hours to Oct 9, 23:00 UTC · 108 mentions, 22.5× a usual day
An AI-built Adobe alternative sparked debate over awkward tools, rapid community fixes and whether it could challenge Adobe despite potential legal risks.
Peak 24 hours to Oct 8, 17:00 UTC · 71 mentions, 14.8× a usual day
Haiku 5.5 launched with lower pricing, prompting speed and quality comparisons, complaints about heavy token usage, and jokes about immediate performance declines.
Peak 24 hours to Oct 22, 05:00 UTC · 61 mentions, 12.7× a usual day
People discussed using Claude to customize Samsung TVs, alongside complaints about home screen ads, slow software and privacy concerns.
Peak 24 hours to Oct 7, 17:00 UTC · 49 mentions, 10.2× a usual day
CVP members reported gaining Mythos 5.1 access, prompting discussion of reverse engineering capabilities, application approvals, and stricter verification requirements.
Peak 24 hours to Oct 7, 17:00 UTC · 53 mentions, 9.8× a usual day
CVP members reported gaining access to Mythos 5.1, praising its reverse engineering abilities while others raised concerns about verification requirements and restrictions.
A mention is any post or comment that names the term, bots left out. The jump compares the peak 24 hours with the daily average the week before, counted as at least 4.8 a day.
Sign up to see the posts behind each termShare of each group’s posts that reached their month’s top 10%, against 9.9% across all 24,713 eligible posts
The dashed line marks the 9.9% base rate. Post counts are eligible posts from April 25 to October 24, 2026: relevant, shown publicly, not removed, and not megathreads or staff posts.
Ranked by how many different people asked, counting replies that agree, with each group’s share of all askers then and now
22,939+people asked for something, across 36,127 posts and comments
Counts are a floor, since a second check keeps only clear requests. Then is April 25 to August 24, now is September 25 to October 24.
Get the requests that match your productFrom moderator and AutoModerator removal and redirect comments, January to October 2026
| Rule | Times enforced |
|---|---|
| Every post is held for review before it appears | about 77,000 |
| New accounts can’t post (comments are allowed) | 3,395 |
| No reposts of content, sentiment, questions or memes posted recently; add to the earlier post | 769 |
| Accounts with negative total karma can’t post | 609 |
| Performance, bug and usage-limit complaints go in the megathreads | 512 |
| Posts must be directly relevant to Claude or Anthropic; competitor posts need a substantiated comparison | 502 |
| Posts must give enough context and evidence to understand them | 397 |
| Memes are limited and removed when repetitive | 207 |
| Old names for renamed projects (Clawdbot, now OpenClaw) are removed | 184 |
AutoModerator held 70.5% of the 60,794 posts from April 25 to October 24 for review before they appeared.
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