Fb Meta has added a brand new characteristic to its Messenger app. A a number of new shortcuts have been added to the app that lets the customers to ship silent messages utilizing the instructions within the chatbox.
Customers can now publish instructions within the chat to carry out totally different duties like sending a silent message with out notifying different customers. Additionally, one can ship GIFs and ASCII emoticons on the Messenger app.
The brand new shortcut characteristic reminds us of defunct MSN Messenger’s ‘Easter Egg’ instructions. It’s designed to make just a few duties on Messenger simpler through the use of one-word instructions.
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The corporate is including a new Slack-like “@everybody” operate that notifies all individuals in regards to the new message. In response to Meta, this new characteristic is ideal for group reminders or to get a fast response for one thing.
Meta has additionally rolled out “/silent’ performance. This implies, earlier than sending a message within the group, you’ll be able to sort “/silent,” the members of the group won’t get a notification of your message.
This characteristic helps you should you don’t wish to bother somebody and permits the customers to learn the messages once they wish to.
These two options can be found right this moment, and the corporate has additionally hinted about some upcoming shortcuts which might be out within the coming weeks.
Fb is planning to launch a brand new shortcut, “/pay,” within the US. This might be straightforward to ship and obtain cash in one-on-one Messenger chats.
We may also see a “/gif” shortcut that lets customers shortly discover and ship GIFs. Nevertheless, this might be restricted to iOS customers solely. Aside from this, iOS customers may also get shortcuts like “/shrug” and “/tableflip.” These shortcuts will sort out ¯_(ツ)_/¯ and (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ emoticons.
These shortcuts can be utilized on Messenger to message a person or in a gaggle through the use of the command. Once you use the command, the customers might be notified in regards to the message relying on the command they’ve used.
