""Communities had a great vision, but they were used by less than 0.4% of users - yet contributed to 80% of spam reports, financial scams, and malware on X.""
""It occupied half the team's time some weeks, while the rest of the app suffered.""
""The most active groups were 'user-acquisition channels for Kick or compensated clipper communities,' not really the intended uses for the feature in the first place.""
""To get a timeline of posts focused on an interest, users will now have to turn to X's new custom timelines feature, which uses Grok to automatically organize posts into feeds focused on topics like food, art or photography.""
X is discontinuing its Communities feature in May, as it was used by less than 0.4% of users and contributed significantly to spam and scams. The feature occupied considerable team resources while the overall app suffered. The new XChat app will replace Communities, allowing group chats of up to 350 people, with plans to expand to 1,000. Users will need to utilize custom timelines for topic-focused posts, as group chats differ from the asynchronous experience Communities provided.
Read at Engadget
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