Community feature in whatsapp

WhatsApp has recently launched a ‘community’ feature that allows its users to club up to 50 WhatsApp groups together, forming a community. According to WhatsApp, users can add up to 50 groups in addition to the announcement group and 5,000 members to a community announcement group. The features include in-chat polls, 32-person video calling feature and groups with up to 1024 users. Communities on WhatsApp will enable people to bring together separate groups under one umbrella with a structure that works for them. That way people can receive updates sent to the entire Community and easily organize smaller discussion groups on what matters to them. Communities will also contain powerful new tools for admins, including announcement messages that are sent to everyone and control over which groups can be included. Communities are inherently private, which is why the Mark Zuckerberg-led management continues to protect messages with end-to-end encryption. This security technology has truly never been more necessary to protect people’s privacy and safety. Close knit groups — schools, colleges, clubs, NGOs, members of a religious congregation, even businesses — very much want and need to be able to have secure and private conversations without WhatsApp monitoring their every word. The new features include emoji reactions and the ability to have groups that include up to 512 people. Another major upgrade is the ability to send files up to 2GB in size, up from the previous limit of 1...

WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, has released the much-awaited ‘ Communities‘ feature for WhatsApp. While this new WhatsApp feature is similar to the ‘ Groups‘ feature on the app, thenew feature offers larger, more structured discussion groupsfor its users – it gives users the ability to organize and bring related groups together under one umbrella.And according to Meta, the new feature is designed to help organizations, clubs, schools, and other private groups better communicate and stay organized. WhatsApp Communities has started rolling on to users with iOS and Android devices, and it should be available to everyone in the coming weeks. Here’s all you need to know about the new Communities feature. Including how it is different from the Groups feature we have come to love on WhatsApp How is it Different From WhatsApp Groups? WhatsApp’s new Communities feature comes with a number of new features – new features that will not be available for Groups. The new features include: • Admin controls • Support for sub-groups • 32-person voice and video calls • larger-file sharing (up to 2GB) • emoji reactions • polls, etc. While WhatsApp group chats will max out at 256 participants, the new Communities features can take up to 1024 WhatsApp participants, and once you’re part of a community, your phone number will be hidden and only available to the Community’s admin(s). Related: How to Create Communities on WhatsApp (iOS) • Open WhatsApp > tap New chat> New Community> Get Started. ...