Overview
- X said it will shut the Communities feature and migrate members into XChat group chats.
- After objections from high‑profile creators, the company extended the transition window and raised chat capacity to 500 members with a stated goal of 1,000.
- X cited tiny adoption and a heavy moderation load, saying Communities drew under 0.4% of users yet generated most spam, scam, and malware reports.
- XChat now supports public join links for group chats, and X is steering interest‑based reading to Custom Timelines that create topic feeds users can pin.
- Some community leaders urged followers to move to Discord, reflecting concern that live chats could splinter large interest groups that formed since the 2021 launch.