About anvaka.org
A calm, modern place to try the similar-subreddits idea, jump out to Anvaka’s map and city-roads toys, and read how everything works without digging through repos first.
🕸️ What you will find here
anvaka.org focuses on practical discovery: type a community, see neighbors, skim explainers. The numbers are the same open research snapshot people have cited for years, but the writing, navigation, and layout are tuned for everyday readers—not just developers.
The legacy sayit UI still lives on GitHub for historians; this site is simply a fresher doorway with stronger context about age, limits, and what “similar” means in human terms.
Raw JSON buckets remain available via the sayit-data project if you want to inspect or remix them yourself.
👋 Who is Anvaka?
Anvaka is Andrei Kashcha’s longtime handle—think sprawling Reddit maps, hypnotic road sketches, dependency galaxies, and other inviting data art you can touch in a browser.
His work repeatedly boils down to one habit: take a pile of intimidating records and let people wander visually, clicking their own questions instead of reading a lecture first.
Follow his broader portfolio anytime at github.com/anvaka.
🛠️ Signature projects worth bookmarking
The original Vue experiment behind overlap graphs—still inspirational if you enjoy UI archaeology.
Pan across tens of thousands of communities positioned by similarity rather than alphabetical lists.
Draw every street in a chosen city—popular poster fodder for hometown pride.
Particle rivers guided by equations—ideal if you miss screensavers with ambition.
Developer-facing but delightful: orbit packages instead of scrolling endless README tables.
⚙️ Behind the curtain (short version)
Pages pre-render as static HTML so screen readers and search engines get full sentences immediately. The only JavaScript-heavy bit is the canvas map, which stays as small as we could keep it.
Styling flows through Tailwind CSS v4 with a tight charcoal-and-orange palette so the focus stays on your graph—not random chrome.
When you search, one modest JSON bucket downloads from our CDN tier—typically friendlier than shipping the entire Reddit universe up front on spotty Wi‑Fi.
⚠️ Disclaimer
anvaka.org is an independent fan effort—it is not Reddit Inc., not an official endorsement from Andrei Kashcha, and not financial or safety advice. Subreddit names belong to their communities. Treat overlap charts as curiosity, not prophecy about today’s Reddit.