Threads is laboring on a community groups feature

Threads is laboring on a new community feature that will seemingly apverify engagers to group together around particular topics and interests, TechCrunch alerts. Developer Chris Messina spotted references to “Loops” in the code for Threads’ tardyst app modernize, which unclpunctual portrays someslfinisherg aappreciate to the “Communities” feature on X or even subreddits.

The code alludes slfinishergs appreciate the ability to combine and depart a Loop community, and giving it a name and bio. The discovery produces upon sleuslfinisherg done earlier by increaseer and set uped leaker Alessandro Paluzzi, who set up examples shotriumphg what the Loops feature might see appreciate inside the Threads app, including “a lowcut to the writer and the home header.” One screensboiling shows a speech bubble icon — identified by Paluzzi as the Loops button — next to the notifications bell at the top right of the app.

Details about Loops are slfinisher, and Meta’s lips are sealed — in a statement to TechCrunch, an unidentified Instagram spokesperson shelp the feature was “in punctual increasement” and is not being tested internpartner or externpartner “at this time.” 

It isn’t clear how Loops will labor as Threads doesn’t engage traditional hashtags, instead apverifying engagers to tag their posts with a individual topic or phrase, such as “Tech Threads” or “Sports Threads.” These can be pretty vagueized though, so Loops might produce it easier to chase and transmit with more definite topics when (or if) it does roll out.