WhatsApp announced communitiesA new section in the messaging app that will bring together conversation groups revolving around a theme or a common social area, such as the activities of a children’s school or neighborhood associations, in one place.
WhatsApp Communities is a new area in the messaging app where users can organize chats as follows. common themesIn order to find the most important messages and spread the latest news.
Each community has its own name, for example the name of the children’s school. It is defined by other elements such as a background image, profile picture, and description. The group number appears below the profile photo (group chat) is linked.
This executive It is responsible for creating and managing the community, selecting the groups to form it, creating new ones or incorporating existing groups. This person will have control over chats, participants and shared content.
This results in, for example, a community created in a community. school managed by the manager or the responsible person. Here you can share the most important updates with all parents as you create separate groups for specific classes, extracurricular activities or volunteer needs.
Controls and privacy
Users can define who can invite them to join a community, an already existing control for group chats. They will also have tools to report abusive content, block accounts or leave communities themselves.
While groups will allow engaging conversations to take place between members, administrators will also be able to conduct it. mass communications, by sending messages to all community participants.
They emphasized the special nature of these communities from WhatsApp. It will therefore not be possible to seek or discover new communities, because limitations to deliver a message. That is, messages that have already been forwarded can only be forwarded to one group at a time, instead of the current forward limit of five.
And they stressed that the conversations are under protection. end-to-end encryption, so that only members of relevant groups can access their content. As an added precaution, the participants’ phone number will be hidden from the general community, although they will be visible to the admin and group chat members.
Communities have now been announced, but your arrival will be slow. At a press conference attended by Europa Press, the company announced that they are continuing to work and test this new functionality, and that it will then launch in some countries first in the coming months to make it available globally. .
What’s new in groups
Along with the announcement of the communities, WhatsApp also made some announcements. group news, It will also include responses to messages in the coming weeks.
They also accept files up to 2GB for sending and receiving. chatsThe maximum number of participants in voice calls will be increased to 32 and administrators will have a new tool to eliminate false or problematic messages.