X is bringing extra consideration to Communities, a characteristic that permits X customers to attach and have interaction in discussions round a given matter, much like the way it’s carried out on Reddit. Right now, tabs to entry common 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 Common, or filter them to indicate solely your posts and replies throughout the Neighborhood.
If sorting by reputation, you’ll now have the ability to type common 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 Current, and Most Preferred, which supplied comparable views, however the characteristic lacked the granularity that’s now supplied when sorting common posts by a specific time-frame.
Plus, a option to rapidly see your individual 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 asserting 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 integrated Community posts across X, by making a consumer’s Neighborhood 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 Neighborhood submit.
X Communities aren’t simply meant to be a option to entice extra customers to X. They may additionally doubtlessly assist the corporate with its AI efforts by creating topical dialogue boards whose information can be shared with companies looking to train their AI models, along with helping train models at X proprietor Elon Musk’s AI firm, xAI.
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