WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging platform, continues to improve its services with the announcement of Communities. It is a space that aims to take the popular group chats to the next level by bringing together “different groups maintaining a structure according to the needs of each case”.
As WhatsApp explains in a blog post, they have received an “avalanche of comments” asking for this function that will do “even more to facilitate the management of these busy group conversations” and that has some similarities with the Telegram, Discord or Slack channels.
More structured and organized groups
The idea of WhatsApp is to build a large space where thousands of people can participate in multiple smaller subgroup chats to “talk about what is specifically relevant to that group of people.” In other words, the developers want WhatsApp to be a place to talk with family and friends but at the same time it can also be a much more organized space with people who have the same interests.
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Communities will facilitate communication between users
It seems quite complicated to understand, so WhatsApp illustrates it with an example: “The Communities option will make your task easier for the director of a school, since you will be able to share the most important updates with all the parents, and create separate groups for specific classes, extracurricular activities, or volunteer needs.
At this point it is important to understand the roles of each. The administrators will be the only ones who can address the entire Community while the normal users of the Community can only transmit information to the members of the subgroups they are in.
On the other hand, to enter a Community it must be done by invitation. In this sense, it will be impossible for a user to search for a Community and then ask to be admitted, something that does happen in Facebook Groups.
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When the Communities service arrives on WhatsApp, it will be the administrators who must link a pre-existing group chat to the new function or create a new group from scratch. It will not be a complicated process and the company believes that many groups will make a very simple transition to these more structured spaces.
More news for WhatsApp groups
The arrival of the Communities does not mean the definitive goodbye to the groups. In this sense, the developers are working “on a series of improvements in the functioning” of these spaces, whether they are part of a Community or not. These fixes will help users “connect in new ways and reduce message overload in larger chats.”
WhatsApp news for lifelong groups
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These improvements are expected to arrive in the coming weeks and always before the premiere of the Communities, for which there is no release date either. These are the news that WhatsApp has announced:
- reactions: Reactions with emojis will serve so that users can quickly share their opinion without flooding the chats with new messages.
- Deleted by administrator– Group admins will be able to remove stray or problematic messages from chats.
- Greater weight when sharing files– 2GB files will now be shareable so people can easily collaborate on projects.
- Calls with more participants: One-touch voice calls will be introduced to talk to up to 32 people. Plus, they’ll have a brand new design for those times when live talk is better than chat.
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