Mark Zuckerberg launches new features for WhatsApp Communities

Delhi: Mark Zuckerberg announced new features for WhatsApp Communities and their groups. 

Groups belonging to a WhatsApp community can create events for their groups, making it easier to come together in person and online. He also announced that community members can now reply to admin announcements in Community Announcement Groups, so that admins can get feedback from members, while announcement groups remain an easy place to catch up with what’s happening in your community. 

Zuckerberg, announced the news on his WhatsApp channel and said, “If you're in a WhatsApp Community, you can now create events in your groups and reply to admin announcements. Over the next few months more groups will be able to create events.” 

Anyone can create an event and others can respond so the whole group knows who is coming. Guests can also find the event in the group’s information page, and those going will get an automatic notification when it’s getting close. Events are coming to groups that belong to a Community first, and will roll out to all groups over the coming months. 

WhatsApp is also bringing replies to Announcement Groups, so admins can hear from their members while keeping these groups an easy place to catch up on what’s happening in your Community. Replies are grouped together and minimised for users to see what others have said in context, and notifications are muted for everyone.

Over the next few months, new features will keep rolling out to Communities and groups.