Just last week, WhatsApp unveiled a new feature known as “Communities” to bring together separate groups under one umbrella. That way people can receive updates sent to the entire Community and easily organise smaller discussion groups on what matters to them. Some of the features include emoji reactions, supporting files up to 2GB, one-tap voice calling for up to 32 people, and announcement messages by admins. “Organisations such as schools, local clubs, and non-profit organisations rely on WhatsApp to communicate securely and get things done – especially since the pandemic forced us all to find creative ways to work together while apart. Given lots of feedback we’ve received, we think there’s more we can do to make it easier to help people manage these busy conversations among these kinds of groups,” it said. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post that he expects Communities 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…
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Will WhatsApp's new Communities feature give Teams and Slack a run for their money?
