X confirms shutdown of Communities after earlier signs of phase-out [Updated]

Update 23/04/26 – 09:18 am (IST): X’s product head Nikita Bier has finally announced that the platform is moving away from Communities and toward XChat for group interactions. The company is introducing joinable group chat links that can be shared on the Timeline, with member limits currently at 350 and increasing soon.

Bier also confirmed that X Communities will be deprecated on May 6, with users advised to migrate members using pinned group chat links. In a follow-up, he added that the deadline has been extended to May 30, while group chat limits will increase to 500 and then 1000.

Original article published on April 8, 2026, follows:

Recent actions on X point to the company phasing out communities. When people on X queried Grok about not being able to create new communities, it responded that the creation of new communities is on hold. Those who get a majority of engagement from communities are worried about losing them.

If you try to create a community on the web app, the option itself no longer exists. I’ve tried to create it by tapping the “Plus” button in the iOS app, but it just throws an error and doesn’t let me create a community. In some cases, you cannot even see the option to create a new community.

If the team at X wants to market the app as “The everything app,” communities are an integral part of it. They definitely didn’t take off in the way that SubReddits did, because most people only use their main home feed on X. There are still communities with thousands of members, where everyone shares interesting content.

The last community that was made before they suspended the creation of new ones is called “The Last Community,” according to a reply from Grok. The official Communities account on X has been inactive since 2024, suggesting that the feature is very far from their main concern. As you can see in the image below, the button to create a new community does not show up at all for some people.

The help center for X only directs you on how to join a community. It no longer shows you information on how to create one. While there’s no official, direct post that communities are being removed, we can still put two and two together.

For now, we can’t deduce whether X is completely phasing them out or just restricting the creation of new ones. If there’s enough pushback, the company could at least keep existing communities around. The gradual removal could be linked to blocking engagement farms on the platform. Thousands of people used to join communities to bait the system for revenue.

Communities were heavily marketed a few years ago as a means to better visibility and better networking for niche topics.

While it’s sad that Communities might get the axe, the app still has several new features. One of them is auto-translate for posts in foreign languages. You can read about that here.

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