O Whatsapp is working on a new feature very similar to what existed in the late Orkut. The application will allow the creation of communities. This feature will make it easier for moderators to manage groups on the platform.
The Meta-owned company has accelerated the pace of its updates when it comes to adding new features, covering both functionality and privacy aspects.
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Just a few weeks ago, WhatsApp released a new tool that allowed users to encrypt their cloud chat backups. With the release, WhatsApp closed a fundamental security flaw that many users had complained about for years. Also, it is now possible to transfer WhatsApp chat history from iPhone to Android phone.
Now, WhatsApp's trusted update tracker WABetaInfo has spotted another feature under development called Communities. First spotted by the folks at XDA Developers in the app's code, the screenshots offer a hint of what Communities are all about.
The feature is currently in development for iOS and Android, but is likely limited to the internal testing stage at the moment and not widely available through the public beta channel. WhatsApp currently allows 256 users in a group.
So if an admin wants to add more people to a group, he's out of luck. The only solution in this scenario is to send the same information to multiple groups one by one, which is definitely tricky. And this is where Communities can be of some help, as they will likely allow an admin to manage multiple groups from a single location.
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Despite what the name suggests, Communities do not have any aspects of social media, unlike groups. All chats that take place in a community will be end-to-end encrypted, as will personal conversations. However, it's not clear if the Community feature will work differently for regular and business accounts.
WhatsApp recently tweaked some rules about sharing data for chats with a business account, but these policy changes have received a lot of criticism from users. Based on the little data that can be gleaned from the report and accompanying screenshots, it looks like the Community will be following the group-within-a-group approach.
Apparently, an admin will be able to create or export multiple groups in a community and manage them with some advanced tools that haven't been detailed yet. The report says, that “Administrators can send messages in this group chat and they will be able to group some groups related to the community: for example, an undergraduate course can be considered a community, and all its teaching classes are groups included in this community."
