WhatsApp is one of the most downloaded apps in the world, but the competition remains fierce. And lately, the Meta messaging service is constantly announcing new features to improve the user experience. Among the most important announcements made by WhatsApp this year is the Communities feature introduced in April. While the app has allowed you to participate in group discussions for years, Communities will allow you to better organize those discussions thanks to features similar to those it has on apps like Slack or Discord.
Communities allow you to better organize group discussions
“Whatsapp Communities will bring together different groups under the same structure,” the message says.on in a whatsapp message. “In this way, participants will be able to receive announcements sent to the wider community, as well as communicate in small groups created around specific areas of interest. Communities will also offer powerful new tools for administrators, including the ability to send announcements to all community members and control which groups can be added to them. © WhatsApp For example, if a school opens a WhatsApp community, it can easily broadcast important announcements parents. And at the same time will possible create groups for each class or groups for each extracurricular activity. And just like simple WhatsApp chats, communities also benefit from end-to-end encryption, which keeps message content private as it passes through the Meta servers.
The novelty is coming to some WhatsApp users
And the good news is that little by little this novelty is becoming available. Indeed, according to an article published by TechCrunch, Meta did not provide details about this rollout, but confirmed that early access was indeed granted to a certain number of users. From son In addition, the WABetaInfo website states that the Community feature compatible with two versions of WhatsApp, one in beta and one stable. But even if you have these updates, you won’t necessarily have the new feature as it is server-side enabled. In any case, the fact that WhatsApp has decided to roll out communities to a small number of users is an indication that development is moving forward.
An analogue of Facebook groups in WhatsApp.
On condition son the interface is very similar to that of Discord or Slack, the WhatsApp Communities feature is often compared to these two apps (one is popular with gamers and the other is aimed at businesses). However, the novelty of WhatsApp can also be seen as a counterpart to Facebook groups in the messaging service. Also, keep in mind that this interface for Discord or Slack will also appear in Facebook groups to better organize discussions. This was reported by Meta in June.
