In Apr of the year, WhatsApp unveiled their new “Communities” feature, which would enable users to set up multiple chat organizations together under an one umbrella community, and permit administrators to share up-dates more effectively.
Today, this feature is certainly finally starting to roll out to users, along with Malaysians having been granted early access, making us one of the first nations to have it accessible.
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At time of syndication, no date continues to be provided for the eventual global rollout of the Communities feature.
With the introduction of Communities, WhatsApp managers will be provided a new set of tools, including settings over which groups will be allowed to join a community, along with the ability to make smaller groups inside the community.
“Community admins can also deliver announcements to all members through an announcement Group.
“Additionally, only admins can add members to a Community or even send an ask link, and will are able to remove members where needed, ” the messaging service had written in a press release.
WhatsApp also discussed that like the existing one-to-one and group chats, all messages in Communities are protected by end-to-end encryption.
Currently, not all Malaysian users have access to the feature as it is still moving out in the country, according to Meta, which additional that Communities is going to be made available over the coming weeks as part of the progressive rollout.
The particular messaging service has also added features for example emoji reactions in order to messages, the ability intended for admins to delete messages of group members, the writing of files up to 2GB in size, plus larger voice calls along with up to 32 participants.