r/OpenAI peaks Thursdays 3am-5am UTC
r/OpenAI was created on December 11, 2015, making it 10 years and 8 months old and one of the older subreddits on Reddit. With 2,819,428 members, this is a large and well-established subreddit with significant reach and influence on Reddit.
r/OpenAI is experiencing strong growth, with 31,410 new members in the last 30 days.
r/OpenAI shows typical engagement for a community of this scale, with an average of 241.5 upvotes per post across its 2,819,428 members. The community is highly discussion-oriented, with a comment-to-upvote ratio of 4.36. To reach the Hot section of r/OpenAI, posts typically need at least 17 upvotes, reflecting the community's activity level.
Posts on r/OpenAI receive an average of 1052.8 comments, indicating a highly engaged community where members actively participate in conversations rather than passively consuming content. This level of discussion is characteristic of communities that value dialogue and diverse perspectives.
Based on an analysis of 100 top posts from the past week, Thursday is the most active day with 21 posts reaching the top, while Monday sees the least activity with 7 posts. Activity is fairly evenly distributed between weekdays and weekends.
The peak posting hours are around 3am UTC (9 posts), 2pm UTC (8 posts), and 3pm UTC (7 posts). The quietest hours are 2am UTC, 8am UTC, and 4am UTC, with only 1-1 posts each reaching the top during these times.
Weekly breakdown: Monday (7), Tuesday (14), Wednesday (16), Thursday (21), Friday (13), Saturday (16), Sunday (13) posts reaching the top.
r/OpenAI currently has 2,819,428 subscribers. Over the past 30 days, the community has grown by 31,410 members (1.13%), averaging 982 new subscribers per day. This growth rate places r/OpenAI in the top 3% of all tracked subreddits.
Over the past 90 days, r/OpenAI has gained 100,362 subscribers (3.69%). Since tracking began 543 days ago, the community has added 618,601 total subscribers. Growth has been accelerating recently compared to the longer-term trend.
r/OpenAI is experiencing strong growth, with 31,410 new members in the last 30 days.
r/OpenAI has 2,819,428 subscribers as of September 2026.
The best time to post on r/OpenAI is Thursdays 3am-5am UTC, based on analysis of top-performing posts from the past week.
r/OpenAI is experiencing strong growth, with 31,410 new members in the last 30 days.
r/OpenAI was created on December 11, 2015, making it 10 years old.
Posts on r/OpenAI typically need at least 17 upvotes to reach the Hot section.
r/OpenAI is a Reddit community with 2,819,428 subscribers. The community describes itself as: "OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. OpenAI's mission is to create safe and powerful AI that benefits all of humanity. We are an unofficially-run community. OpenAI makes Sora, ChatGPT,..." The best time to post on r/OpenAI is Thursdays 3am-5am UTC. Posts receive an average of 241.5 upvotes and 1052.8 comments. The minimum upvotes needed to reach the Hot section is approximately 17. The subreddit is adding approximately 982 new members each day. Founded 10 years ago, r/OpenAI is tracked and analyzed by RedditList as part of its comprehensive database of over 106,367 subreddits.
Last updated: 2026-07-23 22:54:22