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r/madisonwiNSFW

Madison, WI. The subreddit for the best place in the world: Madison, WI. Founded 2009 · 171.6K members

172.3K members. The best post we have captured here reached 80.1K upvotes, which works out to 465 per 1,000 members.

465peak upvotes per 1,000 members
172.3Kmembers
80.1Kbest post
2.1Kmost comments
569posts 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.

35% 22% 19% 10% 8%
Text 35% Image 22% Question 19% Link 10% Gallery 8% Video 5%

The topics it labels

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

Event 8 Meetup 3 Megathread 1 Announcement 1 Meta 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Susan Crawford has won the Wisconsin State Supreme Court Race!

↑ 80.1K 💬 1.4K image 2025

View of East Washington

↑ 18.7K 💬 305 image 2025

Absolute legend

↑ 9.9K 💬 630 image 2025

98 year old Fred Risser and his wife at the anti-Trump protest today.

↑ 8.9K 💬 76 image 2025

Pardeeville, WI

↑ 7.4K 💬 113 image 2026

St. Bernard Catholic Church on Atwood Vandalized

↑ 7.4K 💬 970 image 2022

Sad to see this Onion headline with a photo of Madison PD and Dane County Sheriff

↑ 6.1K 💬 279 image 2024

Janet Protasieqicz Projected Wisconsin Supreme Court Winner - MSNBC

↑ 6K 💬 312 image 2023

Madison Target drive-up employee hit in crosswalk - driver still yells at them

↑ 5.5K 💬 1K video 2026

Protest at the Capitol Building - Feb. 5, 2025

↑ 5.5K 💬 346 gallery 2025

Communities its size

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

r/madisonwi, in numbers

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

What is r/madisonwi?
r/madisonwi ("Madison, WI") describes itself this way: The subreddit for the best place in the world: Madison, WI. It was founded in 2009 and has 171.6K members.
How many members does r/madisonwi have?
r/madisonwi has about 172.3K members. ViralHunt has tracked 569 of its posts; the biggest reached 80.1K upvotes, which is 465 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/madisonwi?
"Susan Crawford has won the Wisconsin State Supreme Court Race!" reached 80.1K upvotes and 1.4K comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/madisonwi.
What subreddits are similar to r/madisonwi?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/madisonwi?
Of the posts we hold, 35% are text posts and 22% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/madisonwi?
Across 569 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 01:00 UTC (14K avg upvotes), Saturday at 19:00 UTC (3.2K avg upvotes), Friday at 14:00 UTC (2.1K 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/madisonwi?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/madisonwi has 3.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 59 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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