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r/RhodeIsland

Welcome to the Ocean State. What cheer, friends? Welcome to the biggest little state in the union. We are the largest online community for Rhode Island. Founded 2009 · 141.1K members

139.9K members. The best post we have captured here reached 34.4K upvotes, which works out to 246 per 1,000 members.

246peak upvotes per 1,000 members
139.9Kmembers
34.4Kbest post
771most comments
233posts 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.

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Image 38% Text 21% Question 12% Gallery 11% Link 9% Video 9%

The topics it labels

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

Picture / Video 40 Politics 23 Meme / Fluff 13 Discussion 9 News 8 Brown University Shooting 3

What the ceiling looks like

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

These are my senators. They did NOT sell me out to the Telecom Lobby :)

↑ 34.4K 💬 176 image 2017

US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on Instagram: "Donald Trump is laser focused… on giving tax cuts to billionaires while your family shoulders the burden…

↑ 8.8K 💬 153 link 2025

"The President is a Profligate Liar:" Sheldon Whitehouse Blasts Trump and Musk's Attacks on Social Security (3-minutes)

↑ 8.6K 💬 283 video 2025

Let’s call it what it is.

↑ 6.5K 💬 124 video 2025

RI joins 19 states in suing Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship

↑ 4.7K 💬 254 link 2025

By Royal Decree, I hereby rename the Atlantic Ocean off the Eastern seaboard "The Gulf of Rhode Island"

↑ 4.3K 💬 101 image 2025

Providence anti-Trump Protest

↑ 3.1K 💬 350 gallery 2025

Westerly Protest!

↑ 2.7K 💬 127 video 2025

No Kings Rhode Island

↑ 2.5K 💬 147 gallery 2025

Life in Rhode Island

↑ 2.5K 💬 48 image 2026

Communities its size

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

r/RhodeIsland, in numbers

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

What is r/RhodeIsland?
r/RhodeIsland ("Welcome to the Ocean State") describes itself this way: What cheer, friends? Welcome to the biggest little state in the union. We are the largest online community for Rhode Island. It was founded in 2009 and has 141.1K members.
How many members does r/RhodeIsland have?
r/RhodeIsland has about 139.9K members. ViralHunt has tracked 233 of its posts; the biggest reached 34.4K upvotes, which is 246 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/RhodeIsland?
"These are my senators. They did NOT sell me out to the Telecom Lobby :)" reached 34.4K upvotes and 176 comments in 2017, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/RhodeIsland.
What subreddits are similar to r/RhodeIsland?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Leakednews, r/PopCultureV2, r/SpaceXBets, r/interestingnewsworld, r/circled, r/International.
What kind of posts do best on r/RhodeIsland?
Of the posts we hold, 38% are image posts and 21% are text posts.
When is the best time to post on r/RhodeIsland?
Across 233 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Friday at 15:00 UTC (9K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 17:00 UTC (3.1K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 13:00 UTC (1.8K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. 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/RhodeIsland?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/RhodeIsland has 2K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.

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