WhatsApp’s Communities feature has been in development for almost a year, but Meta officially hinted at its existence back in April in a press release detailing the upcoming changes to the messaging app. After waiting months for his arrival, WhatsApp has finally decided to roll out the feature.
According to a report by WABetaInfo, WhatsApp is currently testing Communities with some Android users. Seems like Versions 2.22.19.3 (beta) and 2.22.19.2 (stable) are first compatible. Those who receive this update will find a new WhatsApp Communities tab that replaces the old Camera tab.
Also read: WhatsApp now lets you leave a group in ninja mode
What are Communities on WhatsApp?
For the unaware, the Communities feature allows you to easily manage all your related groups and create subgroups for different topics. 10 subgroups can be created and each can contain up to 512 memberss. When you create a Community in WhatsApp, a group is automatically created under it.
For example, WhatsApp users can create a Community for a school with subgroups for each class or extracurricular activity. Admins can then send announcements to the entire group to reach all usersor only to certain groups.
A member of the community can decide join a subgroup based on your interestss. In addition, he can leave the subgroup at any time. without leaving the community itself. WhatsApp communities also allow you to block specific contacts, report abuse, and more. They will also be end-to-end encrypted just like WhatsApp chats.
If the test of this new feature is successful, WhatsApp may roll out this new functionality to all users in the coming weeks.
Source : WABetaInfo