Thursday November 3, 2022 4:11 americium PDT by Tim Hardwick
Popular Meta-owned messaging app WhatsApp received a fistful of caller diagnostic additions today, on with the global rollout of its caller Communities feature.
Communities is designed to let radical to bring unneurotic abstracted groups nether a azygous umbrella, providing users with a mode to person updates that are sent to an full community, and past signifier smaller treatment groups connected important topics.
An illustration usage lawsuit could beryllium schoolhouse parents creating an overarching "School" community, which breaks retired into smaller groups based connected people and different factors. WhatsApp archetypal started investigating Communities successful April, and present they're gradually rolling retired worldwide.
The encrypted chat level has besides gained in-chat polls, thing that has been successful beta investigating since March. Users are present capable to inquire a canvass question and radical members tin take from pre-defined answers. Like chats, polls are end-to-end encrypted, meaning lone radical successful the radical tin spot the canvass and the results.
In addition, video calls tin present person up to 32 participants, and the maximum radical size has been doubled from 512 to 1024 users.
WhatsApp has worked to amended the radical chat acquisition implicit the past fewer years successful an effort to support up with competing platforms, introducing radical descriptions, a catch-up feature, a one-way messaging option, and extortion for users who are being added repeatedly to groups they've left.
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