X brings new filters and sorting options to the Community feature, as well as the ability to view your own posts. X is giving more attention to the "community" feature. "Community" is a feature that allows X users to connect and participate in discussions around specific topics, similar to the one on Reddit.
Today, tabs for accessing popular “communities” are pinned to the top of the app’s homepage, alongside “Recommended for you” feeds and other lists. You can now tailor these personal updates based on Trending, Latest, or Popular, or filter them to only show posts and replies you've made within the Community.
If you sort by "Popular," you can now sort popular posts by "Day," "Week," "Month," "Year," or "All Time" — a similar set of options to those on Reddit.
Previously, posts in Communities could be sorted by Trending, Newest, and Most Liked, and those options provided a similar view of browsing, but the feature lacked the granularity of sorting popular posts by a specific time frame today.
In addition, in previous versions, users could not quickly view their own posts and replies.
The changes will initially roll out to users in the updated iOS app, according to a post posted by an X engineer announcing the latest version of the Community tab feature.
The company is still working on rolling out these new features to the web and Android.
This product update is the latest effort by Last month, the company further integrated Community posts across the X platform by making users' posts and replies there visible to their followers as well as other users on the X platform. To increase user engagement, X also enables anyone to reply to "community" posts.
X's "community" feature isn't just about attracting more users to X. They also have the potential to bolster the company's AI efforts by creating topical discussion sections whose data can be made available to companies looking to train their own AI models, in addition to being used to help train models for X's owner Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI.