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X is shutting down Communities because of low usage and lots of spam

27 points by pier25

by xnorswap

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I read "We are investing heavily in XChat" and was really confused for a second, having used xchat as my main IRC client back in the day.
I hadn't realised that it was now long defunct, with its last release in 2010.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XChat_(IRC_client)

by thot_experiment

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You know, I don't think the scams and spam are because of the design of the "Communities" tool but because those are the only people left using the website.

by bathory

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X is shutting down... happy face Communities because of low usage and lots of spam not happy face

by stevage

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by phendrenad2

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So they're monkey-branching from cloning Reddit to cloning Discord. Wonder if that'll work better for them.