X is shutting down its Communities feature on May 30, with Head of Product Nikita Bier confirming the platform will remove the feature that allowed users to create and join interest-based groups. The extension follows an initial May 6 deadline as moderators transition members to alternative formats.

Communities failed to gain traction with less than 0.4% of users while generating 80% of spam reports and financial scams on the platform. Bier revealed the feature consumed half the team's resources some weeks, creating disproportionate moderation demands compared to its adoption rate.

X will replace Communities with XChat, supporting group chats of up to 350 people, expandable to 1,000. Unlike Communities' separate timeline experience, XChat demands active participation. Users seeking topic-focused feeds can now turn to X's custom timelines feature using Grok to organize posts automatically.

The discontinuation reflects X's ongoing platform restructuring under Musk, eliminating features that don't meet engagement thresholds or create excessive moderation burdens.