WhatsApp is introducing a few new options for Communities that can enable members to take part in newer methods. Meta, the dad or mum firm of the moment messaging platform, introduced on Wednesday that it’s including a brand new Occasions characteristic and permitting replies within the Announcement Teams to make Communities extra interactive. Occasions will enable members of a bunch to create any occasion and different individuals can then add if they are going or not. Notably, WhatsApp can also be reported to be engaged on a Lately On-line characteristic that can record customers who’ve logged into the app just lately.
Saying the options in a newsroom publish, Meta stated, “To assist convey communities even nearer collectively, we’re including a brand new approach for folks to arrange occasions on WhatsApp, and we’re introducing organized replies in Announcement Teams so members can reply to vital updates from admins.” As per the corporate, Occasions can now be created by any group member whose group is a part of a neighborhood. The choice to create an occasion might be discovered by tapping the paper clip icon within the textual content subject which additionally opens choices for polls and funds.
These occasions might be for something together with a digital meet-up or a party. As soon as an occasion is created, different members can reply to it. They’ll open the occasion and make sure whether or not they are going to be attending it or not. Everybody can see who shall be attending the occasion and who won’t be.
The occasions can be discovered on the group’s info web page. Members who shall be attending will get a notification when the occasion is near remind them about it. For now, Occasions are unique to teams in Communities, however WhatsApp has stated that it will likely be rolling out the characteristic to all teams over the approaching months.
One other characteristic being launched is replies to Announcement Teams. Each neighborhood in WhatsApp has a separate Bulletins group which is accessible to all members even when they’re added to simply one of many teams however solely the admins can publish in it. It’s usually used to publish main bulletins which can be related to all members. WhatsApp is now permitting all members to answer to those messages.
This characteristic is designed to let admins get suggestions from the neighborhood in a single house. These replies are grouped and minimised to keep away from cluttering, and opening it opens a backside slide that reveals all of the replies. Reply notifications are muted for everybody.
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