March 21 (Portaltic/EP) –
WhatsApp has implemented two new features in the community groups that allow the admins decide who can join to your group from an invitation link and, on the other hand, allows members to discover other groups that have in common with your contacts.
The instant messaging platform deployed in August of last year the communitiesa feature that improves the organization and transmission of information by allowing Gather groups in the same space of conversation that revolve around common themes and interests.
Since the inception of Communities, WhatsApp has added other updates related to groups such as the extension of the number of participants allowed and the possibility that admins delete sent messages in the groups they manage.
In this sense, so that people “can make the most of your groups“, now the platform has implemented two new tools with the aim of getting the groups are “easier for administrators to manage” and “easier for everyone to navigate”, as reflected in a release.
WhatsApp has added new controls for administrators that allow you to decide who can join your group and who can’t. It’s about a access control which is useful for situations where the group has been shared through a invite link.
In other words, with this new tool, the administrator will be able to accept or reject users who try to enter through the link. For this, a ‘Pending participants’ tab in which a list is shown with those people who have requested access to the group and are pending approval from the administrators to join permanently.
To accept a user, it is enough for the administrator to click on the icon with a green tick that appears next to the name. In the same way, for reject a person the administrator should touch the X icon.
SEE THE GROUPS IN COMMON
The second tool that the instant messaging platform has added is a way to find out which groups a user has in common with other people. To do this, at write the name of a specific contact in the search bara list below with groups that are shared with that user.
In addition, this feature also makes it easy for users to find the groups that you know have in common with other users but of the They don’t remember the specific name.
could already be consulted common groups with other contacts entering the profile of each specific user but, now, it can be consulted more directly by searching by name.
These new features will begin roll out globally over the “next few weeks”“, according to WhatsApp.
