WhatsApp is simple and effective, and it's group chat feature is probably amongst the most widely used universally.
But, with tens of messages coming through for everyone daily, this can get a bit tedious to cope with. I guess, a better way to go back to these is what's the need of the hour.
Allowing a "Private Group" and/or with self membership
Sounds weird, maybe. But, since WhatsApp doesn't have a way to organize messages which can be easily browse later, I feel such a feature may help.
Here's a scenario:
Say, I receive a message from one of my contacts/groups, which I like, and would like to save - and keep - or even "categorize/organize/mark" it somewhere, where I can go back to it at a later point in time. Note, I do not want to share this with anyone else right away, but bcoz I may keep getting more messages (especially from the group), it becomes hard to go back and find this message again.
So, instead, if I am allowed to create a "private group", with just myself as a member, I should be able to forward this message to this group.
Interestingly, while there wasn't a concept of "private group", on my earlier phone (Nokia E63) I was able to add a contact for myself, and view the chats for this. Sadly, when I moved to a new Android phone, and version 2.12.94, WhatsApp automatically filters my own phone number from the contacts, and thus, i'm no longer able to use this "bug"/feature from the older version!
I see that WhatsApp has just introduced a feature to "mark a conversation as unread", but not sure if that serves the above purpose in entirety.
Anybody listening out there? (Hope so).
If you (reader) like this, do vote for it or put in your comments. May be that'll get us heard.
Disclaimer: This is not an official WhatsApp Enhancement tracker/publisher, but since it was hard to get in touch with the WhatsApp guys, I just put this down by myself. Maybe someone will help to take this to them. Cheers.
