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Emoji reactions in Groups messaging ❤️
May 23, 2022

Emoji reactions in Groups messaging ❤️

What’s worse: getting a million responses of “ok” to your message or having no one respond because they don’t want to bother the group? Either situation is less than ideal, but there’s a new way around it—reactions! Reactions are an unobtrusive way to acknowledge, send love, and respond to a topic or reply to a message without blowing up everyone’s phone! Replies and Topics 🙏 Hold down on any message, and you’ll see a menu that allows you to react, and shows an option to view reactions.

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Control Group Notifications in Church Center
Jun 09, 2021

Control Group Notifications in Church Center

The primary pillar of Groups is connecting you and your community. It’s a balancing act to keep everyone in the know about when things are happening and keeping the swirling conversations in order. And now, it's a little easier to manage those conversations in Groups with new notification options and preferences! New Notification Options Wouldn’t it be nice if you could upload a resource to your group, and your group would just know without you emailing them about it? Especially because of B

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Group Messaging: Out of Beta and On to the Web!
Nov 19, 2020

Group Messaging: Out of Beta and On to the Web!

Since we launched the beta of group messaging, it’s become the place for small groups to stay connected with each other throughout the week. We released a few updates to the beta, but today we are ready to bring this feature home officially because messaging is available on the web! Now leaders can communicate with members from wherever and whenever they please—from their computer or on their phone through the app. This also means that members without smartphones won’t be excluded from the co

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