# X Provides Feed Sorting Choices for Communities

X has rolled out its newest replace for Communities, offering you with extra choices to kind posts inside a group feed, which might encourage extra lively, topical engagement.

As outlined by X engineer Dong Wook Chung, X has added a number of new feed sorting choices inside the group show, so you possibly can prepare group posts by trending and recognition (Likes), together with chronological sorting choices.

As you possibly can see in these instance screens, you too can drill all the way down to solely your individual posts and replies inside that group, whereas you too can now kind posts by recognition over variable time frames.

Which might make it simpler to seek out the newest trending dialogue inside every, or get an understanding of what good points probably the most traction and curiosity in that group.

On this sense, the brand new sorting choices are extra like Reddit, providing you with extra methods to work together with completely different components of the group, or get a greater deal with on every group.

And with all X teams now successfully public, that might help in broader discovery, with customers trying to find related content material within the app now capable of additionally uncover communities’ posts. And if you do, you’ll now moreover have the ability to get a greater rundown of what that group is all about, which might see extra individuals becoming a member of in.

It’s troublesome to inform how a lot communities are contributing to X’s general engagement, as a result of whereas X has sought to make them extra of a spotlight, and has repeatedly famous that communities are seeing extra utilization over time, it additionally just lately eliminated the communities tab from the underside of the app navigation panel, changing it with a devoted video tab as an alternative.

That would counsel that communities aren’t a key driver of engagement, however then once more, I doubt that Grok is a key utilization factor for many customers both, and it’s acquired it tabs and buttons everywhere in the app.

Final March, X did report that time spent in communities had grown +600% year-over-year, with round 650,000 group posts being created every day.

That looks as if rather a lot, nevertheless it nonetheless looks like a extra area of interest factor, which X appears to need to make into a much bigger deal, so it has extra specialised, targeted feedback on devoted subjects.

Possibly it’s, and definitely, if these numbers have held, that’s loads of exercise, with over a fifth of the app’s customers participating in communities every day. And once more, with the latest swap that can see communities posts made eligible for search and discovery, this could possibly be a helpful replace.