X is bringing extra consideration to Communities, a characteristic that permits X customers to attach and have interaction in discussions round a given matter, just like the way it’s achieved on Reddit. In the present day, tabs to entry widespread Communities are pinned to the highest of the app’s homepage alongside your For You feed and different Lists. Now, you’ll be capable of customise these particular person timelines by what’s Trending, New or Widespread, or filter them to indicate solely your posts and replies inside the Group.
If sorting by reputation, you’ll now be capable of kind widespread posts by day, week, month, 12 months or all-time — a set of choices that mirrors these on Reddit, as nicely.
Beforehand, Communities’ posts could possibly be sorted by Trending, Most Latest, and Most Preferred, which supplied comparable views, however the characteristic lacked the granularity that’s now supplied when sorting widespread posts by a selected timeframe.
Plus, a technique to rapidly see your individual posts and replies wasn’t accessible within the prior model.
The adjustments are initially accessible to customers within the up to date iOS app, notes a submit from an X engineer saying the most recent model of the Communities tabs characteristic.
The corporate remains to be working to deliver the brand new performance to the net and Android.
The product refresh is the most recent in X’s broader efforts to revamp the Communities characteristic to make X extra interesting to those that need extra targeted discussions. Final month, the corporate extra deeply built-in Group posts throughout X, by making a consumer’s Group posts and replies seen to their followers and others on X. To spice up adoption, X additionally made it doable for anybody to answer to a Group submit.
X Communities aren’t simply meant to be a technique to entice extra customers to X. They may additionally probably assist the corporate with its AI efforts by creating topical dialogue boards whose knowledge could be shared with corporations trying to practice their AI fashions, along with serving to practice fashions at X proprietor Elon Musk’s AI firm, xAI.
