{"id":1237668,"date":"2025-03-06T18:48:32","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T23:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237668"},"modified":"2025-03-06T18:48:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T23:48:32","slug":"instagram-is-experimenting-with-a-discord-like-community-chat-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1237668","title":{"rendered":"Instagram is experimenting with a Discord-like \u2018community chat\u2019 feature"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It seems that Instagram is working on a \u201ccommunity chat\u201d feature that allows people to organize groups of up to 250 people in the app. The so-far unreleased feature was spotted by<\/a> developer Alessandro Paluzzi, who has a solid track record of uncovering new features within Meta\u2019s apps.<\/p>\n

According to screenshots shared by Paluzzi, it seems that community chats will function similarly to Discord. Individual users can form the chats around specific topics and control who can join, though there\u2019s apparently a limit of 250 people per community.<\/p>\n

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Unlike Instagram\u2019s broadcast channels<\/ins><\/a>, which allow creators to blast out messages to their followers, anyone who is in the community chat can participate in the conversation. There are also built-in moderation features. \u201cAdmins can remove messages and members to keep the channel safe,\u201d the screenshot says. \u201cWe also review Community Chat against our Community Standards.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear when, or if, the feature may launch. An Instagram spokesperson described it as an internal prototype that\u2019s not being tested outside the company. But Meta has previously released similar features in its other apps. WhatsApp began experimenting with a \u201cCommunities<\/ins><\/a>\u201d feature in 2022, and brought \u201cCommunity Chats\u201d to Facebook<\/ins><\/a> and Messenger later that same year. Mark Zuckerberg said at the time<\/ins><\/a> it was meant to help people find \u201ca new way to connect with people who share your interests.\u201d<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/social-media\/instagram-is-experimenting-with-a-discord-like-community-chat-feature-234832236.html?src=rss<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems that Instagram is working on a \u201ccommunity chat\u201d feature that allows people to organize groups of up to 250 people in the app. The so-far unreleased feature was spotted by developer Alessandro Paluzzi, who has a solid track … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,44,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-technology","category-unfiltered-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}