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Facebook Groups are being revamped to look like Discord

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source link: https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/28/23186527/facebook-groups-discord-channels-test-future-slack
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Facebook Groups are being revamped to look like Discord

New Groups changes seem inspired directly by Discord

By Jay Peters@jaypeters Jun 28, 2022, 3:00pm EDT
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Facebook Groups are about to get some big changes, and if you’ve used Discord, the new approach should seem pretty darn familiar. Meta is testing a new left-aligned sidebar and channels list for Groups, and the changes are giving me some serious Discord vibes. Meta is even evoking Discord with a purple accent color.

Central to the changes is a new sidebar that lists your groups with rounded square icons. Like with Discord and Slack, you’ll be able to pin groups so that they show up first on the list. Individual groups will have a new menu that seems lifted right from Discord. The menu organizes things like channels, Messenger conversations, and events one after another.

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Stop me if you’ve seen something like this before.Image: Meta

Channels in Groups can be text chats, audio rooms, or feed rooms where people can post and comment in a way that’s similar to what you’re used to seeing on your own feed. Text chat looks like a Messenger thread, while audio rooms look a lot like audio rooms in Discord.

You can get a look at all three of those channels in this gallery of screenshots from Meta, which just so happens to feature a hypothetical group dedicated to video games. I wonder why that might be.

The test arrives as Meta begins its shift to make Facebook feel more like TikTok. The goal of that change is to have your feed recommend more content from accounts you don’t follow, so it makes some sense that Meta is using the shift as an opportunity to rethink how Facebook Groups work. But we’ll have to wait and see if the blending of TikTok and Discord into Facebook makes sense in practice — I personally think it could be confusing.

The changes will be available publicly in the coming months, Meta spokesperson Kate Cichy tells The Verge.


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