Communities now available on WhatsApp

Communities, a new WhatsApp feature that offered bigger, more organized conversation groups that were first put through testing earlier this year, is now officially available around certain countries throughout the globe. The messaging platform now offers a number of additional capabilities that will improve organization and communication among corporations, organizations, schools, and other private groups.

These qualities consist of;

• Admin controls,
• Support for sub-groups and announcement groups,
• 32-person voice and video calls,
• Larger file sharing,
• Emoji reactions, and polls.

Communities themselves provide end-to-end encryption and can accommodate groups of up to 1024 users. Before today’s launch, some of the Community-specific features—such as emoji reactions, massive file sharing, and the admins’ ability to delete messages—had already been ported over to WhatsApp.

Because WhatsApp is phone number-based, as opposed to Facebook, members of these discussion groups already know one another because they may have swapped phone numbers or at the very least provided their numbers with the group admin. In addition, WhatsApp Communities are concealed, in contrast to Facebook Groups, which may be found on the site.

There are still worries that communities like this could support organizations that act illegally or dangerously, similar to how Facebook Groups have recently enabled the spread of false information about health and elections, feeding the flames that, for example, led to the January 6 Capitol Riot.

Being a Digital Marketing Firm, we anticipate that over the coming months, this capability will be accessible in Mauritius and throughout the entire WhatsApp user base, including both Android and iOS users.

Read more: https://www.laurenkduane.com/whatsapp-communitites