In the tech business, it isn’t is actually to be expected that opponents gain from one another, getting highlights from one another, or making identical executions. This is also true for the best messaging apps, with well-known ones like Telegram and Discord dictating the essential features. Despite its popularity, Meta’s WhatsApp has been catching up, developing the Communities feature for beta testers before releasing it to the general public. Similar to Discord’s server-based general channel, WhatsApp is currently developing a general chat room for Communities.
WhatsApp has been hard at work developing Communities, which are a cool way for people with similar interests to bring together various chat groups under a single umbrella—a community. Community members can choose which groups they want to participate in, and each group can have a specific goal. With features like a dedicated chat for announcements, message sorting options, and detailed explainers for how to get started with the new feature, communities give participants and administrators more control than the typical WhatsApp group chat.
Similar to the announcements group, WhatsApp has begun testing a new general group chat for new communities with the recent beta update to version 2.23.19.6 on the Google Play Store. WABetaInfo reports that the general group chat is included by default in all new WhatsApp communities after testing the feature. It is intended to be a place where veterans and newcomers can converse without interfering with other topical community group chats and find a welcoming environment to begin their involvement.
The new general chat can only have 1,024 members, just like any other group chat, and WhatsApp automatically adds all new community members to this group. This gathering visit is auto-made when you start another local area on WhatsApp, similar as the declarations channel. However, if administrators prefer to operate without it, they can remove the group chat from the community information page.
Strangely, communities that have already been established do not have the option to immediately include this general group. According to WABetaInfo, WhatsApp does not intend to offer an alternative. In addition, WhatsApp does not conceal participant phone numbers from the group information screen. We hope that these two aspects will be adjusted appropriately in the future. For the time being, more beta testers are getting the option to automatically add a general group chat to a new community. This feature is present in the most recent beta build, but older 2.23.19 versions are also compatible.