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r/Albany

Albany, NY. A place to discuss the capital city of New York and the surrounding area. Founded 2009 · 103.9K members

104.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 15.4K upvotes, which works out to 147 per 1,000 members.

147peak upvotes per 1,000 members
104.6Kmembers
15.4Kbest post
1.3Kmost comments
406posts we track

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What actually lands here

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.

37% 28% 15% 10%
Text 37% Image 28% Question 15% Gallery 10% Link 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.

Friends and neighbors 1 /r/whatcouldgowrong 1 Art & Artists 1 You Think This Is A Game? 1 Schools in Session Frankie ! 1 Get the 55 gallon barrel! 1 Kill It With Fire 1 The Original Steamed Hams ! 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Great turnout in Albany for President’s Day protest

↑ 15.4K 💬 1K gallery 2025

Albany Spoke Out Against the Nazis and “King” in DC

↑ 11.3K 💬 716 image 2025

Protest happening now

↑ 10.3K 💬 700 gallery 2025

Seen in Albany Walmart today

↑ 5.5K 💬 282 image 2025

Hands Off Rally

↑ 5.3K 💬 234 image 2025

Go Albany!

↑ 5.2K 💬 580 gallery 2026

At the Market 32 at Madison and Lawrence

↑ 4.7K 💬 305 image 2025

Wowza

↑ 4.4K 💬 584 image 2026

You're never prepared for how stupid they look when you encounter one around town. It's like the car equivalent of a school project done the night be…

↑ 3.9K 💬 375 image 2025

STATEMENT FROM GOVERNOR KATHY HOCHUL

↑ 3.8K 💬 600 text 2025

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/Albany, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/Albany?
r/Albany ("Albany, NY") describes itself this way: A place to discuss the capital city of New York and the surrounding area. It was founded in 2009 and has 103.9K members.
How many members does r/Albany have?
r/Albany has about 104.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 406 of its posts; the biggest reached 15.4K upvotes, which is 147 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Albany?
"Great turnout in Albany for President’s Day protest" reached 15.4K upvotes and 1K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Albany.
What subreddits are similar to r/Albany?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone.
What kind of posts do best on r/Albany?
Of the posts we hold, 37% are text posts and 28% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Albany?
Across 406 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 21:00 UTC (3.9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 18:00 UTC (3.4K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 22:00 UTC (2.5K 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/Albany?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Albany has 2.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 303 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/Albany, 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.