Boston, MA. Welcome to r/Boston, your community for Boston & its surrounding areas. We enthusiastically celebrate our diversity, knowing it's the source of our city's unique energy. We're on a journey toward greater equity and dedicated to inclusion where all belong. This sub proudly reflects that path forward. Founded 2008 · 804.6K members
808.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached
113.9K upvotes, which works out to
141 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
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Text 32%Question 22%Image 19%Link 15%Gallery 7%Video 4%
The topics it labels
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
Dining/Food/Drink 🍽️🍹 121Serious Replies Only 117Arts/Music/Culture 🎭🎶 73MBTA/Transit 🚇 🔥 66Tourism Advice 🧳 🧭 ✈️ 61Photography 📷 57Politics 🏛️ 51Moving 🚚 51Unconfirmed/Unverified 49I think I am special and made my own post 48
What the ceiling looks like
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/boston?
r/boston ("Boston, MA") describes itself this way: Welcome to r/Boston, your community for Boston & its surrounding areas. We enthusiastically celebrate our diversity, knowing it's the source of our city's unique energy. We're on a journey toward greater equity and dedicated to inclusion where all belong. This sub proudly reflects that path forward. It was founded in 2008 and has 804.6K members.
How many members does r/boston have?
r/boston has about 808.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 1.2K of its posts; the biggest reached 113.9K upvotes, which is 141 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/boston?
"Massachusetts: birthplace of the revolution" reached 113.9K upvotes and 1.1K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/boston.
What subreddits are similar to r/boston?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/scotus.
What kind of posts do best on r/boston?
Of the posts we hold, 32% are text posts and 22% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/boston?
Across 1.2K timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 11:00 UTC (38K avg upvotes), Monday at 19:00 UTC (9.7K avg upvotes), Saturday at 22:00 UTC (9.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/boston?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/boston has 20.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 602 posts from it in the last 30 days.
See what is climbing here before you write
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/boston, not everything the
community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is
weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.
Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed.
See how we measure.