X is bringing extra consideration to Communities, a characteristic that enables X customers to attach and have interaction in discussions round a given matter, much like the way it’s achieved on Reddit. In the present day, tabs to entry well-liked Communities are pinned to the highest of the app’s homepage alongside your For You feed and different Lists. Now, you’ll be capable to 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 to kind well-liked posts by day, week, month, yr or all-time — a set of choices that mirrors these on Reddit, as nicely.
Beforehand, Communities’ posts could possibly be sorted by Trending, Most Current, and Most Favored, which supplied comparable views, however the characteristic lacked the granularity that’s now supplied when sorting well-liked posts by a selected time-frame.
Plus, a method to rapidly see your individual posts and replies wasn’t accessible within the prior model.
The modifications are initially accessible to customers within the up to date iOS app, notes a publish from an X engineer saying the most recent model of the Communities tabs characteristic.
The corporate continues to be working to carry the brand new performance to the online 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 attainable for anybody to answer to a Group publish.
X Communities aren’t simply meant to be a method to appeal to extra customers to X. They may additionally doubtlessly assist the corporate with its AI efforts by creating topical dialogue boards whose knowledge might be shared with firms seeking to practice their AI fashions, along with serving to practice fashions at X proprietor Elon Musk’s AI firm, xAI.
