PARIS, August 23 (Benin News/EP) –
WhatsApp began rolling out Communities, a feature that brings together conversation groups around common themes and interests in a single space. This feature is now available in the latest version for Android beta testers.
This feature was first noticed in early October last year, when XDA Developers found several references in the app’s code indicating that communities would co-exist alongside the platform’s existing newsgroups. .
It wasn’t until April of this year that the company itself announced that Communities was a new section of the messaging app, which would allow you to follow the most important messages from common social spaces, as well as messages of general interest. spread the latest news.
Recently, WABetaInfo found this feature in the latest WhatsApp beta update. pour Android 2.22.19.3, which is already accessible to some testers of this version.
As can be seen in a screenshot shared by this portal, users who already have this option can start creating a community by adding up to ten group chats.
The latter, which will be renamed “subgroups”, The latter can accommodate up to 512 participants, a capacity that is already possible in normal group chats and which is another of the latest innovations introduced by Meta earlier this summer.
The outlet pointed out that a community member has the right to choose which subgroup to join without leaving the community, and community admins also have the right to choose which subgroup to join without leaving the community. can deactivate them if they no longer wish to use them. Additionally, other participants in this new feature have the option to report WhatsApp if they record violations of the terms of service.
Once a community has been created, WhatsApp automatically generates a new group that functions as a bulletin board, where admins can post messages that will be forwarded to the community. always visible for all community members.
WABetaInfo also reminded us that, for now, the phone numbers of community members cannot be masked, a feature the company is still working on and which this portal warned about a few days ago.
This privacy feature is not included in this first version intended for beta testers of the application, but it is not excluded that it will arrive later thanks to future updates.