For the messaging of the American group Meta, it is a question of offering “small businesses and school groups” the tools “to communicate in complete safety and organize”.
Le Monde
Most of the new features of WhatsApp, announced in April by his parent company, Meta, are gradually deployed to all users since May 5.
It is therefore now possible to use “reactions emojis”, which allow emojis to attach to the message of another user, in the manner of what the discord, slack … or the messenger already allow From Facebook, another property of the Meta company, in order to limit the “overload of messages in groups”.
Another novelty: the limit of the number of users within a group will go from 256 to 512 people. Finally, the weight limit for attachments has also been revised upwards and multiplied by twenty, going from one hundred mega -typists to two gigabytes. This in order to promote “collaboration within small businesses and school groups”, Explain WhatsApp in a blog post .
group conversations
All these features had been announced from April 14, at the same time as the next possibility of bringing together several conversations within a “community”, that is to say A set of groups, for example, bring together all the conversations linked to a school establishment or to a condominium in the same place.
It is, according to WhatsApp, to meet the needs of “certain structures, such as schools, local associations or non -profit organizations” which “now count on WhatsApp to communicate safely and organize “. Jyoti SOOD, Manager produced at WhatsApp, had already specified that Meta did not intend to “monetize” these communities.
This last feature has not yet been deployed by WhatsApp, but the American company promises other updates “throughout the year”.