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r/bostonceltics

Subreddit for the Boston Celtics. The community for the 18-time NBA Champion Boston Celtics! Founded 2008 · 926.8K members

927K members. The best post we have captured here reached 13.9K upvotes, which works out to 15 per 1,000 members.

15peak upvotes per 1,000 members
927Kmembers
13.9Kbest post
1.4Kmost comments
501posts 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.

42% 19% 14% 12% 8%
Text 42% Link 19% Video 14% Image 12% Question 8% Gallery 3% Poll 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Discussion 190 News 46 Highlight 33 Fluff 29 Meme 20 Stats 8 Lowlight 5 Rumor 5

What the ceiling looks like

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

Proposal to ban X.com links

↑ 13.9K 💬 796 text 2025

Don’t scroll without saying thank you to 4th Qtr Jaylen Brown

↑ 10.6K 💬 747 image 2022

DERRICK WHITE APPRECIATION POST

↑ 10.2K 💬 754 image 2023

Don't scroll by without thanking your 2023-2024 NBA Executive of the Year who made this all happen, Brad Stevens.

↑ 7.8K 💬 306 image 2024

I don't know what to say... THANK YOU MARCUS

↑ 7.7K 💬 995 image 2023

Let's show Jaylen that the Celtics fans who want him traded are in the vast minority. He's a clutch scorer and an elite defender who went to war for …

↑ 6K 💬 419 image 2022

Isaiah Thomas Appreciation Thread

↑ 5.7K 💬 501 text 2017

THE CELTICS HAVE SWEPT THE NETS, EVERYBODY DO THE BANNER 18 BOOGIE

↑ 5.4K 💬 320 video 2022

Don’t scroll without thanking the best backcourt in the nba

↑ 5.4K 💬 187 image 2024

Kemba confirmed to Boston UPVOTE PARTY

↑ 5.3K 💬 329 text 2019

Communities its size

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

r/bostonceltics, in numbers

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

What is r/bostonceltics?
r/bostonceltics ("Subreddit for the Boston Celtics") describes itself this way: The community for the 18-time NBA Champion Boston Celtics. It was founded in 2008 and has 926.8K members.
How many members does r/bostonceltics have?
r/bostonceltics has about 927K members. ViralHunt has tracked 501 of its posts; the biggest reached 13.9K upvotes, which is 15 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/bostonceltics?
"Proposal to ban X.com links" reached 13.9K upvotes and 796 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/bostonceltics.
What subreddits are similar to r/bostonceltics?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois.
What kind of posts do best on r/bostonceltics?
Of the posts we hold, 42% are text posts and 19% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/bostonceltics?
Across 501 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 15:00 UTC (4.8K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 03:00 UTC (3.3K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 23:00 UTC (3.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Friday. 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/bostonceltics?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/bostonceltics has 3.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 66 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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