WhatsApp Said to Be Working on New Community Feature 131860 Will Allow to ‘Group Other Groups Easily’

WhatsApp Communities is likely to be a new place where group s may have more control over groups on WhatsApp, mainly to group other groups easily. 1b313g

By Tasneem Akolawala | Updated: 8 November 2021 14:57 IST

WhatsApp Said to Be Working on New Community Feature, Will Allow to ‘Group Other Groups Easily’

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of a WhatsApp Community is said to have more control than a group

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WhatsApp Community icon is reported to be square-shaped
s are likely able to group some groups with similar interests
s cannot be added directly to communities, only via invite link

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WhatsApp is reportedly developing a new Communities feature. This new feature was spotted under development by WABetaInfo and is said to be an expansion of Groups. According to the features tracker, WhatsApp Communities is likely to be a new place where group s may have more control over groups on WhatsApp, mainly to group other groups easily. This feature is not available for beta s as its still in the development phase and it may be a while before it is rolled out for testing purposes.

WABetaInfo has WhatsApp will look like. Going by the name, it is likely to host a large set of like-minded people or people with similar interests. The of a WhatsApp Community is said to have more control than a group . The WhatsApp Community icon is reported to be square-shaped with rounded edges to distinguish the community from a group chat.

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The tracker reports that s will be able to send messages in this group chat and will be able to group some groups related to the community. The community is reported to also offer some tools to s to better manage all groups included in the community. However, what these advanced tools may be are not known at the moment. As the feature is still in the early stages of development, a lack of clarity surrounds it. s will also reportedly be able to invite other people to the community. s can be manually added or they can using a “Community Invite Link” depending on whether the community is kept private or public.

To give a faint idea of what WhatsApp Community might be, WABetaInfo gives an example of students in a degree course which can be considered a community. All of its teaching classes are groups included in this community. Another example of the official Discord server of WBI is given, wherein the Discord sever can be considered a community, while its channels are groups of the community. This WhatsApp Community feature is under development on WhatsApp beta for Android and iOS both, according to the tracker.

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