Meta officially launches ‘Communities’ for Whatsapp. The new feature makes it possible for larger groups and businesses to communicate more effectively.
Additionally, the social media giant announced on Thursday that video calls can now have up to 32 participants, which may be helpful for a big video chat.
Emoji message reactions as well as the communities feature, which serves as a complement to Telegram’s Groups and Channels sections, were first introduced in April.
According to Meta, users of its chat application will now be able to “bring together different groups under one umbrella with a structure that works for them.”
Techniques for coordinating between communities or school districts can be included in this.
According to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, “it [communities] makes groups better by enabling sub-groups, multiple threads, announcement channels, and more.”
“End-to-end encryption protects everything, ensuring the privacy of your messages.”
Within WhatsApp communities, you’ll have access to a number of new features, such as the capacity to establish more discussion groups and receive updates sent to the entire community.
Additionally, new tools for administrators will be accessible, such as the capacity to choose which groups can sign up for the community and send out general announcements.
Along with communities, WhatsApp is also releasing new features that can be used in groups and communities. These include in-chat polls for group decision-making, the aforementioned 32-person video calls, and groups that can have up to 1,024 members.
Communities, according to Meta, is going public and will be made available to everyone over the coming months.
