X is bringing extra consideration to Communities, a function that permits X customers to attach and have interaction in discussions round a given matter, just like the way it’s executed on Reddit. Right now, tabs to entry fashionable Communities are pinned to the highest of the app’s homepage alongside your For You feed and different Lists. Now, you’ll have the ability to customise these particular person timelines by what’s Trending, New or Widespread, or filter them to point out solely your posts and replies inside the Group.
If sorting by reputation, you’ll now have the ability to kind fashionable posts by day, week, month, yr or all-time — a set of choices that mirrors these on Reddit, as effectively.
Beforehand, Communities’ posts could possibly be sorted by Trending, Most Latest, and Most Preferred, which provided comparable views, however the function lacked the granularity that’s now provided when sorting fashionable posts by a selected timeframe.
Plus, a option to rapidly see your personal posts and replies wasn’t out there within the prior model.
The adjustments are initially out there to customers within the up to date iOS app, notes a post from an X engineer saying the most recent model of the Communities tabs function.
The corporate remains to be working to carry 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 function to make X extra interesting to those that need extra centered discussions. Final month, the corporate extra deeply integrated Community posts across X, by making a person’s Group posts and replies seen to their followers and others on X. To spice up adoption, X additionally made it potential for anybody to answer to a Group submit.
X Communities aren’t simply meant to be a option to appeal to extra customers to X. They might additionally probably assist the corporate with its AI efforts by creating topical dialogue boards whose information will be shared with corporations trying to prepare their AI fashions, along with helping train models at X proprietor Elon Musk’s AI firm, xAI.