Most New Whatsapp Features, announced in April by its parent company, Metaare gradually being rolled out to all users since May 5.
It is thus now possible to use “reaction emojis”, which allow emojis to be attached to another user’s message, in the same way as Discord, Slack… or Facebook Messenger already allow, other property of the Meta company, in order to limit the “Message overload in groups”.
Another novelty: the limit on the number of users within a group will increase from 256 to 512 people. Finally, the weight limit for attachments has also been increased and multiplied by twenty, from one hundred megabytes to two gigabytes. This in order to promote “collaboration within small businesses and school groups”, explains WhatsApp in a blog post.
Group conversations
All of these features were announced on April 14, along with the upcoming possibility of bringing together several conversations within a “community”, that is to say a set of groups, to, for example, bring together all conversations related to a school or condominium in the same place.
This, according to WhatsApp, is to meet the needs of “certain structures, such as schools, local associations or non-profit organizations” who “now rely on WhatsApp to communicate securely and organize themselves”. Jyoti Sood, product manager at WhatsApp, had already clarified that Meta did not hear “monetize” these communities.
This latest feature has not yet been rolled out by WhatsApp, but the American company promises other updates ” throughout the year “.