WhatsApp launches community service for some users in preparation for its launch
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The popular messaging service, WhatsApp, has launched the much-anticipated Communities feature that has now been rolled out to additional users around the world, and is nearing launch next year.
According to techcrunch, the new Communities feature will allow WhatsApp users to create a community that can host up to 10 chat subgroups with support for up to 512 participants in each subgroup.
And the “WABetaInfo” website, which specializes in monitoring WhatsApp updates, reported that the Communities tab appears for some users of the beta version of WhatsApp on Android who have updated to version 2.22.193 on Google Play, which provides the ability to create communities.
According to the “WABetaInfo” report, the feature is only available to a limited number of users across the two Android systems, and the feature may not appear to all beta users on the latest version immediately, and some may have to force the application to close and restart first.
For those who can access the feature, the new “Communities” tab will appear on the main screen of the WhatsApp application, which will replace the “Camera tab” in the upper left corner of the application, and those who can see the new Communities tab will be able to create a community that includes Up to 10 groups in it and support up to 512 participants.
Members of a community can select a chat subgroup of their choice when they join a new community, where members will be allowed to leave subgroups without leaving the original community.
How does the community feature work in WhatsApp?
For a group admin, admins have the ability to disable a community, the community will essentially be a larger umbrella group that sits on top of smaller subgroups, and admins will be able to send messages to specific subgroups or the entire community via an ad group that will be automatically generated when a community is created.
On the other hand, users who are invited to the community can decide which sub-group to join based on their interests, where communities also allow the members of a sub-group to leave without leaving the community itself.
WhatsApp is also hiding the number of members in subgroups from other participants for privacy reasons, but this has not yet been implemented.
At the same time, the Communities feature will allow members to directly "Report" reports to the service's technical support about the community in which they are participating, and Communities include features designed to add structure to larger group chats, such as support for file sharing, group calls of 32 people, and reactions to icons. expressive, as well as management tools and supervision controls.
It is worth noting that Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, the owner of WhatsApp, announced the “Communities” feature earlier this year, allowing users to create smaller groups within larger groups, and after months of waiting, the feature is finally officially rolled out to users. WhatsApp beta, which indicates that stable operation may be around the corner.