💡 X Communities is one of the best things to happen to X, and removing it would be a huge mistake.

 

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Communities are not just another feature. They are one of the few parts of X that still feel focused, useful, human, and genuinely community-driven.

For me personally, X Communities is the only place on the internet where I’ve been able to consistently connect with highly engaged people who share the same goals, passions, and interests as I do.

 

The Build in Public community has been especially valuable to me as a founder. It has helped me get feedback on my startup, understand customers better, share traction, meet collaborators, and connect with people who are actively building things themselves. Through Communities, I’ve ideated with others, discussed designs, worked through product ideas, explored offers, refined campaigns, and had conversations that simply would not have happened in the same way on the main timeline.

 

 

 

 

Communities are powerful because they create a dedicated place for people with a shared interest to find each other and actually interact with intent.

The main timeline is noisy and unpredictable. The algorithm is always changing. Posting normally often feels like throwing something into the void and hoping the right people happen to see it.

 

Communities solve that.

 

They give people a reliable, relevant, interest-based place to engage.

 

That has mattered enormously for my startup, Accentify, a free app to let language learners, actors and creators learn any accent with unlimited feedback from Hollywood accent coaches.

 

Our niche is essentially accent training, pronunciation support and improving your speaking - something X Communities helped me find perfectly.  

For example, the niche community "Learn English" have given me a place to find potential users who are actually relevant to Accentify's niche. That has meant more targeted conversations, more impressions, better engagement, stronger feedback, and a much clearer path to reaching the right people.

 

Everyday I'm browsing X for more communities to participate in to help scale Accentify.

 

I know thousands of other business owners feel the exact same way.

 

Instead of relying entirely on the algorithm, Communities create consistency.

 

Beyond business, Communities have been personally meaningful too. I’ve made genuine friends through them. I’ve gained business through them. I’ve made money through them. I’ve supported other people inside them, given feedback for free, done consultancy, and had others do the same for me.

I’ve met incredible people, formed real working relationships, and become part of spaces where people genuinely help each other move forward.

That is not a small thing.

 

That is what a real community is supposed to do.

 

💡 Nikita, Why Are You Ignoring The Massive Public Backlash?

 

It’s not just smaller founders or niche users saying this. Some of the biggest creators on X — and some of the biggest creators on the internet more broadly — have made it clear that Communities matter.

 

Speed (around 4M followers) has said that his Community is an important way for him to talk with and stay connected to his audience.

 

 

 

 

KSI (8.2M followers) publicly criticised the decision and made it clear that he actively uses his Community.

 

 

Sneako (1M followers) also pushed back on the removal.

 

 

Clix (2.5M followers) pointed out how unrealistic it is to expect a Community to be replaced by a limited group chat.

 

 

xQc (1.5M followers) said directly that Communities should not be removed and that the replacement would not be used in the same way.

 

 

Lacey (341K followers) said creators across the internet use Communities daily to interact with supporters, and that weak group chats are not a substitute.

 

 

Earth (1.2M followers) highlighted the absurdity of calling something "community" while excluding the overwhelming majority of people from participating.

 

 

Stable Ronaldo (1.5M followers) has also been mentioned among creators who rely on Communities and benefit from them.

 

This is important because it shows that Communities are not some fringe or useless feature.

 

They are actively valuable to founders, builders, niche interest groups, educators, fans, and major creators with massive audiences.

 

Whatever your personal opinion on these creators, their influence on X and the wider internet cannot be understated.

 

The fact they're also speaking out and the Head of Product at X (Nikita Bier)  is actively choosing to ignore it speaks volumes about the decision making happening right now.

 

💡 Communities = "Town Square of the Internet"

 

There is also a bigger point here.

 

X has often been described as the "town square of the internet", most famously by Elon Musk, the CTO, Chairman and owner of X himself. But a real town square is not just one giant crowd of people shouting into the same open space.

 

 

 

A real town square has groups, corners, clubs, stalls, noticeboards, regulars, subcultures, conversations, and communities forming around shared interests.

 

That is what makes it alive.

 

The main timeline is the open square. Communities are what give that square structure. They are the places where people gather with intent. They are how a massive public platform becomes navigable, personal, and socially meaningful.

 

So when Nikita Bier says Communities were used by less than 0.4% of users, or that some Communities were inactive, that does not automatically prove the feature was a failure.

 

 

 

Most meaningful spaces are not used by everyone.

 

Not everyone goes to the same club, the same local meeting, the same market stall, the same church, the same gym, the same school, or the same fan group.

 

That is the whole point.

 

Communities are valuable because they are specific. Their value is not that every user joins every Community. Their value is that the right people can find the right spaces.

 

And if Communities generated a disproportionate amount of spam reports, scams, or moderation work, that points to a tooling and enforcement problem, not a reason to destroy the entire concept.

 

Bad actors follow attention. Every useful social surface eventually attracts spam. The answer is better moderation, better admin controls, better discovery standards, better anti-spam systems, better verification signals, and better Community owner tools.

 

Not removing one of the few features that actually helps X feel less like a chaotic feed and more like a living network of people.

 

💡 X Chat/Subreddit vs Communities

 

Calling Communities a "Temu version of subreddits" also misses what made them powerful.

 

Communities on X and subreddits are very different. They are valuable because they sit inside X’s public conversation layer.

 

A post can live in a focused Community, be discovered by people who care, and still connect back to the wider platform.

 

That is a unique advantage.

 

It creates a bridge between niche belonging and public conversation.

 

X Chat cannot do that. The timeline alone cannot do that. Communities can.

 

A big part of the problem is that X Chats and Communities are not the same thing.

 

X Chats can absolutely exist as their own feature. That’s fine. But they do not need to replace Communities, because they serve completely different purposes.

 

Communities are public, discoverable, structured spaces built around shared interests. They let people gather around a topic, follow along over time, contribute publicly, and feel part of something larger than a private message thread.

 

Group chats are different.

 

Once you start putting hundreds of people into a chat, it quickly becomes chaotic. Conversation quality drops. Messages get buried. Meaningful communication becomes harder, not easier. The more people you add, the more spammy, unreadable, and noisy it becomes.

 

Most people end up lurking, while only a small number dominate the chat. Important updates from creators or moderators get drowned out. It becomes much harder to maintain quality, clarity, moderation, and genuine engagement.

 

That is not what Communities do best.

 

Communities allow a creator or moderator team to speak to a much broader group in a more organised and visible way. They create a central hub. They help users feel connected to something ongoing, not trapped in an overwhelming stream of chat messages.

 

They are far better for scale, far better for discoverability, and far better for sustained engagement.

 

Replacing Communities with group chats misunderstands the problem completely.

 

A group chat turns a public hub into a closed room.

 

The timeline turns every conversation into a fight for algorithmic attention.

 

Communities sit in the middle.

 

They give people a place to gather, contribute, return, and build identity around shared interests.

 

That is exactly what a digital town square needs.

 

Not less structure.

 

More of it.

 

💡 Keep Communities & Improve It

 

This is why the backlash has been so strong. We are upset because we understand the difference between a real community space and a crowded chat room.

 

We are upset because Communities give them something the main timeline cannot.

 

We are upset because X finally had something that helped people gather around shared interests in a meaningful way, and now it may be discarded instead of improved.

 

Communities should not be removed.

 

If anything, they should be getting more support, more development, and more attention.

 

This feature has real value. It helps creators stay connected to their audiences. It helps founders and builders find feedback, collaborators, and customers. It helps people with shared interests gather in one place. It helps conversations stay focused. It gives users a sense of belonging on a platform that can otherwise feel scattered and chaotic.

 

And it makes no sense to discard a feature that so many people clearly find useful simply because someone internally may not personally like it.

 

 

 

If X truly wants to build a stronger platform, it should invest in the parts of the platform that create genuine connection, not remove them.

 

Communities are one of the strongest social features X has.

 

They give the platform depth.

 

They create loyalty.

 

They help people find their people.

 

They support creators, founders, learners, fans, builders, and niche groups alike.

 

Removing Communities would be a step backwards.

 

X Communities are under-supported.

 

The answer is not to kill them.

 

The answer is to improve them.

 

Give Communities better tooling. Better moderation. Better discovery. Better analytics. Better creator controls. Better spam protection. Better visibility. Better ways for Community owners to engage their members. Better ways for members to find the Communities that matter to them.

 

But do not remove one of the few genuinely valuable, community-driven parts of X.

 

Keep X Communities. Improve them. Expand them. Support them. But do not remove them.

 

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