After releasing WhatsApp Communities to even more users on WhatsApp for iOS, Android, and Desktop, we decided to launch an experiment with our visitors by creating an announcement group for WABetainfo within a community on WhatsApp!
Common questions | Answers |
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Story about? | WABetaInfo Announcement Group on WhatsApp |
Status? | Available |
Compatibility? | WhatsApp Communities need to be enabled for your WhatsApp account. |
How can I discover if WhatsApp Communities are available for my account? | If you see a new tab called “Communities”, it means you can start creating and joining communities on WhatsApp. |
Link to join? | WABetaInfo Community invite link on WhatsApp |
Previous news? | WhatsApp beta for iOS 22.24.0.81: what’s new? WhatsApp is releasing a new presentation sheet for view once messages! |
As you probably already know, we have a Discord Server where we discuss new features, changes, announcements, bugs, and more, with all other people that joined the server. We have more than 16k members on Discord and we appreciate this platform, but wouldn’t it be amazing to get WhatsApp news right within… WhatsApp? For this reason, we decided to create a community on WhatsApp for WABetaInfo.
WHAT IS A WHATSAPP COMMUNITY?:
A WhatsApp Community is a place where it is possible to organize and bring related groups together with the same topic. Let’s imagine a school with all its classes: the school is the community and its classes are the groups of the community. So a WhatsApp Community is not a group but it is like a catalog of similar groups managed by the community creator.
The concept of a WhatsApp Community is very similar to a Discord Server, even if WhatsApp Communities do not pivot to a public social network model.
THE ISSUE:
We think a community is a perfect place where we can discuss news about WhatsApp for all their different platforms, in the future. But why do we say “in the future” since communities are already available? When you join a group that belongs to the community, all group members would see your phone number at the moment, and we do not want this to happen.
THE SOLUTION:
Our community only contains an “announcement group” where nobody, except the community admin, can see who joined the community. Phone numbers are always hidden in this special group since the participants’ list is not available.
WhatsApp plans to hide phone numbers within groups of communities between group members in the future. When this privacy feature will be enabled, we plan to create some groups within our community and there will be a new article with further details. This is exactly the final solution for the issue above mentioned.