My main WhatsApp group is now a "Community"It has been the best thing that has happened to him.

I was the other day with my friends in a torrà nocturnal, the Valencian version of a barbecue. The twelve of us met, and the ribs came, the thighs came, It occurred to me to propose turning our WhatsApp group into a ‘Community’a feature released two years ago that none of us had paid attention to.

Context: In our group we are twelve guys between 32 and 34 years old, in my case it is my most active group and sometimes things can happen like you get distracted for a while and when you pick up your phone you find this:

An intense afternoon. Image: Xataka.

It’s not the norm, but it happens sometimes. The conversations are about football, sports, movies, absurd memes, improvised plans and, ultimately, about everything that interests the average thirty-something. I won’t give any more details.

The thing is that sometimes it’s overwhelming when we got together Several chatterboxes gather together and the notifications howl. A community gave us ways to improve it.

We created the community with everyone, a general channel that would replace the previous group, and thematic channels for those who want to be in those conversations.

• Those who do not want to read the conversations about movies or the group running meetings stay away from these channels.
• Those who want to be kept up to date with them, but not too much, can mute a particular channel.

In this way, those who do not run do not swallow messages about shoes and routes, and those who do not have a hobby in cinema do not scroll conversations about Nolan.

It all comes down to now Every sheep has its own corralthe conversations are somewhat better structured and the group lives in a neat drawer, not a junk drawer.

Besides, You can create private groups with only certain members that the rest will not see.. The classic “Quique’s Birthday” hidden from Quique, for example. You can even create events so that they are always at hand for others.

The only downside is that communities cannot be pinned to the top of the conversation list, but an active community usually doesn’t have the problem of being stuck at the bottom.

Do I recommend this change? Yes. Especially in very active groups where there are many topics of conversation that are not of interest to everyone.

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