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The messaging app WhatsApp has reportedly copied a feature from Instagram, which wouldn't make much sense to integrate.
Instant messaging apps have been around long enough that we've entered a phase where it's difficult for new features to be truly useful. In fact, in recent years what we have seen is that the companies behind these applications are increasingly inspired by the competition..
One of the clearest examples is the integration of statuses in WhatsApp, this being a unique feature. from Snapchat and? Instagram managed to imitate it perfectly.But what the photo and video social network achieved, the instant messaging platform hasn't.
And the truth is, WhatsApp statuses are almost never used. There are several reasons for this, but the reality is that it's a format that doesn't fit into an app used to send and receive messages. However, Meta does not give up on the use of this feature and from time to time integrates new functionalities..
Normally these features don't make it directly into the official version, as they first go through the beta version, which is distributed to the bravest users. In this version, features such as the one that It has been discovered by WABetaInfo.
Breaking down the latest beta version of WhatsApp What has been found is that the messaging application would be in charge of developing reactions to the statesYes, a feature found on Instagram and, arguably, even available within WhatsApp chats.
These reactions would consist of emojis that users want to send to their friends' or family's status posts. At a general and user level, it doesn't make much sense to have this type of feature within a messaging application., since it is made for conversation.
The worst thing of all is that according to what WABetaInfo comments, these reactions through the use of emojis would come with certain limitations.The limitation would be the fact that not all emojis would be supported, something that has already happened with reactions to messages within WhatsApp and that, After several weeks, it has been solved.
For now, all we can do is wait for WhatsApp to officially launch the feature so we can test it and see if it's useful or not. In the meantime, we'll stay tuned to see if the messaging app has more features in the works..
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