X says it is deprecating X Communities, giving members until May 30 to migrate to XChat, and plans to increase group chat limits to 1,000 in the next two weeks
@nikitabier Nikita Bier
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Discussion
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@nikitabier
Nikita Bier
on x
@blakeir We're going to be investing heavily in XChat. 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 s…
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@wongmjane
Jane Manchun Wong
on x
@nikitabier @sidhantuthra > Due to declining usage, we're deprecating X Communities on May 6 Is it also because some people were gaming rev shares within communities? 👀
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@nikitabier
Nikita Bier
on x
We've heard you. To give sufficient time to migrate: You'll have until May 30th to transition to XChat. We'll also increase groupchat limits to 500 members tomorrow and aim to reach 1000 in the next couple weeks. This should cover all but a handful of communities on X.
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@blakeir
Blake Robbins
on x
X killing Communities is a huge gift to Discord. A lot of creator communities still want a home. Discord is the default fallback. https://x.com/...
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@thisisdglove
Darren Glover
on x
a product team REMOVING an entire feature of communication for creators without consulting with the largest creators and users of the feature is poor decision making. they clearly made this decision by looking at quantitative gross usage metrics — vs — qualitative metrics of