“We built WhatsApp Communities to make it much easier to organize all your group chats and find information. You'll be able to bring different groups together into one community -- for example, in addition to individual groups for different classes, you might have one overall community for parents at a school with a central place for announcements and tools for admin,” says Mark Zuckerberg
WhatsApp is adding a few other features into messaging app like Message reactions, Admin Delete, File Sharing, and voice calls between a larger amount of people.
Reactions - Emoji reactions are coming to WhatsApp so people can quickly share their opinion without flooding chats with new messages.
Admin Delete - Group admins will be able to remove errant or problematic messages from everyone’s chats.
File-Sharing – WhatsApp is increasing file sharing to support files up to 2 gigabytes so people can easily collaborate on projects.
Larger Voice Calls – WhatsApp will introduce one-tap voice calling for up to 32 people with all-new design for those times when talking live is better than chatting.
WhatsApp Communities will be secured by end-to-end encryption. “We're going to start rolling this out slowly, but I expect this to be an important evolution for WhatsApp and online communication overall. In the same way that social feeds took the basic technology behind the internet and made it so anyone could find people and content online, I think community messaging will take the basic protocols behind one-to-one messaging and extend them so you can communicate more easily with groups of people to get things done together,” added Zuckerberg
Community messaging features will also be coming to Messenger, Facebook and Instagram eventually, said Zuckerberg “ I'm excited to see how this progresses as we start testing WhatsApp Communities today and roll it out over the coming months.”
