WhatsAppthe extremely popular mobile-first instant messaging service owned by Meta is starting to roll out a communities feature that allows connect conversation groups under one umbrella and one infrastructure. Or to put it another way, it opens the door to combining presumably related group conversations.

With the communities feature, users will be able to connect chat groups within the community to chat and discuss. To help manage things, WhatsApp will offer admins new community management tools, including the ability to push notifications to all members and the ability to choose which groups to include in the community.

As a possible practical example, WhatsApp suggested neighborhoods, workplaces and parents who have their children in the same school and whose groups could join as part of a community. Users will be able to create new communities and add groups to existing ones.

That the services of the Meta ecosystem tend to share similar features is not surprising at this point, so some have already mentioned that WhatsApp communities remind them of Facebook groups. In addition to being easy to create, edit and delete communities, these communities they will have end-to-end encryption to make conversations difficult to read by intercepting the connection. Those in charge of the messaging service emphasized that they want to “raise the standards in organizational communication with unprecedented levels of privacy and security.”

In addition to communities, WhatsApp is introducing new features for traditional groups in some places, such as polls, encrypted video calls with up to 32 participants and the fact that groups themselves now support up to 1,024 members.

After many years, WhatsApp is still the absolute king of instant messaging, but with precedents like Kodak and recently Intel after the discovery of Ryzen, it is clear that it must continue to innovate and develop if it does not want to start eating Telegram. really earth