WhatsApp’s Killer Blow: New Feature Makes Discord Obsolete

Audio hangouts in voice chat are one of WhatsApp’s nifty features for group conversations, similar to Discord’s voice channels. Meta announced that it is updating this feature within the messenger platform, allowing even larger group chat members to join audio hangouts. Audio hangouts in voice chats were shipped in 2023. They offer specific advantages over the app’s standard voice calling feature, such as enabling spontaneous conversations, providing a collapsible chat interface, and allowing users to join or leave the chat without ringing other participants. While the app already supported up to 256 participants in a single chat, this limit has ballooned to more than a thousand in the latest update. Also read: Everything you should know about the new WhatsApp WhatsApp’s Discord-like Feature Gets a Boost WhatsApp stated in a press release that Voice Chat’s audio hangouts will now accommodate “groups of all sizes,” meaning each hangout can now host up to 1,024 participants—quadrupling the previous limit (a nice nod to binary numbers there, Meta!). That’s a notably large limit and could work well for many group chats with open memberships. As usual, voice chat audio hangouts will still function for smaller groups, with a minimum of two participants required for each
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