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/r/philly. An alternate subreddit for the city of Philadelphia Founded 2008 · 123.2K members

124.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 32.6K upvotes, which works out to 261 per 1,000 members.

261peak upvotes per 1,000 members
124.6Kmembers
32.6Kbest post
4.3Kmost comments
561posts 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.

29% 25% 15% 14% 8% 8%
Image 29% Text 25% Link 15% Question 14% Gallery 8% Video 8%

What the ceiling looks like

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

Post celebration protest.

↑ 32.6K 💬 817 image 2025

Philadelphia POLICE gets physical/VIOLENT with Peaceful Protestors

↑ 28K 💬 3.9K video 2025

01.23.2026 - "We Won't Participate": Philly Joins National Strike to Block ICE

↑ 24.6K 💬 1.2K video 2026

Love Park looks great in the snow

↑ 21.3K 💬 263 image 2026

another state of the nation pic.

↑ 20.8K 💬 293 image 2025

Proposal Fuck this guy. X links should be banned

↑ 16.1K 💬 962 image 2025

YASSSSS! Philly sues the Feds over Enslaved people's exhibit removal

↑ 15.6K 💬 267 image 2026

This is what democracy looks like 🇺🇸

↑ 15K 💬 945 video 2025

thank you s philly

↑ 14.7K 💬 166 image 2026

Parks service removing historical signs about slavery

↑ 13.3K 💬 1K gallery 2026

Communities its size

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

r/philly, in numbers

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

What is r/philly?
r/philly ("/r/philly") describes itself this way: An alternate subreddit for the city of Philadelphia. It was founded in 2008 and has 123.2K members.
How many members does r/philly have?
r/philly has about 124.6K members. ViralHunt has tracked 561 of its posts; the biggest reached 32.6K upvotes, which is 261 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/philly?
"Post celebration protest." reached 32.6K upvotes and 817 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/philly.
What subreddits are similar to r/philly?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Leakednews, r/stevehofstetter, r/StrikeAtPsyche, r/PopularCultureZone, r/topofreddit.
What kind of posts do best on r/philly?
Of the posts we hold, 29% are image posts and 25% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/philly?
Across 561 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 20:00 UTC (9.2K avg upvotes), Monday at 18:00 UTC (9K avg upvotes), Tuesday at 23:00 UTC (6.5K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/philly?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/philly has 7.9K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 83 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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