The world’s largest instant messaging application WhatsApp has introduced a feature called ‘Communities’ to keep multiple chat groups in a single box.
In his post, Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the company that owns WhatsApp, announced the introduction of the ‘Communities’ feature, saying that it will make it easier for people to get information from groups in the application.
He said multiple groups could be added to a single box under the’ Communities’ feature. Users, including the group admin, can access the same box to get and transfer information.
In this regard, WhatsApp said in its blog post that the ‘communities’ features had been introduced worldwide since November 3, but the said feature may take several weeks to reach many people.
The post confirmed that the feature might take a few months to reach all users.
Under the ‘Communities’ features, any admin will be able to add multiple groups of the same type at once and will also be able to send messages to all groups from a single chat.
Likewise, normal users will be able to join all the same groups in the communities at once, and users will be able to view messages from all groups in a single chat.
WhatsApp will probably hide the number of group members included in the ‘Communities’ feature to improve and secure the said feature.
The feature will work similarly to Twitter’s TweetDeck, as any user on TweetDeck will be able to open multiple Twitter accounts at the same time. Similarly, the feature will work with messaging app Telegram’s ‘channels’, where users can join multiple groups simultaneously.
Under the ‘Communities’ feature, users are also likely to be given access to more emojis and content-sharing features across group chats.
To use the ‘communities’ feature, users must go to any group chat on their WhatsApp and go to the manual icon on the right side, where communities will be visible.
