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/r/stopdrinking: A support group in your pocket!. This subreddit is a place to motivate each other to control or stop drinking. We welcome anyone who wishes to join in by asking for support, sharing our experiences and stories, or just encouraging someone who is trying to quit. Please post only when sober; you're welcome to read in the meanwhile. Founded 2010 · 717.9K members · text posts only

722.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 24K upvotes, which works out to 33 per 1,000 members.

33peak upvotes per 1,000 members
722.8Kmembers
24Kbest post
1.2Kmost comments
447posts 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.

91% 9%
Text 91% Question 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.

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What the ceiling looks like

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

Out of jail, Reddit helped lower my sentence.

↑ 24K 💬 655 text 2018

I DID IT!!! I STAYED SOBER ON CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!

↑ 12.8K 💬 497 text 2022

Woke up to packed bags

↑ 9.6K 💬 98 text 2017

My Beloved Wife (long post - but I need to get this out)

↑ 7.6K 💬 544 text 2020

My 16yo son died last night, day 1.

↑ 7.5K 💬 601 text 2022

After almost 5 years without a drink, I was mistakenly served one at a restaurant last weekend

↑ 7.3K 💬 361 text 2023

My husband stocked the pantry full of premium liquor. I immediately drank all the vodka as if the last year never happened, felt intense shame and re…

↑ 6.9K 💬 226 text 2021

Just got pulled over. 1 am leaving a bar!

↑ 6.9K 💬 283 text 2025

who’s waking up new year’s day without a hangover???

↑ 6.8K 💬 904 question 2025

TSA didn’t recognize me from my passport photo (2018 vs 2023)

↑ 6.7K 💬 304 text 2023

Communities its size

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

r/stopdrinking, in numbers

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

What is r/stopdrinking?
r/stopdrinking ("/r/stopdrinking: A support group in your pocket!") describes itself this way: This subreddit is a place to motivate each other to control or stop drinking. We welcome anyone who wishes to join in by asking for support, sharing our experiences and stories, or just encouraging someone who is trying to quit. Please post only when sober; you're welcome to read in the meanwhile. It was founded in 2010 and has 717.9K members.
How many members does r/stopdrinking have?
r/stopdrinking has about 722.8K members. ViralHunt has tracked 447 of its posts; the biggest reached 24K upvotes, which is 33 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/stopdrinking?
"Out of jail, Reddit helped lower my sentence." reached 24K upvotes and 655 comments in 2018, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/stopdrinking.
What subreddits are similar to r/stopdrinking?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/scotus.
What kind of posts do best on r/stopdrinking?
Of the posts we hold, 91% are text posts and 9% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/stopdrinking?
Across 447 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Sunday at 12:00 UTC (5.9K avg upvotes), Friday at 03:00 UTC (4.2K avg upvotes), Friday at 15:00 UTC (4K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. 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/stopdrinking?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/stopdrinking has 5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 319 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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