Facebook starts beta testing its Public Group experience with selected groups

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Facebook starts beta testing its Public Group experience with selected groups

A new Public Group experience project was presented on October 1st of 2020 and required an OPT-IN from group admins who will be willing to participate in beta testing.
Today, some group admins may discover a notification saying "Changes to Public Groups". There it states that your group was invited to be among the first to start using a new Public Group experience.

The setup process describes all the changes that will happen to the group and a deadline when this change won't be revertable.

The most notable changes that Public Group experience brings:

  • Group posts may appear in people's news feed who is not necessarily a member of the group.
  • Everyone will be able to join a public group while post moderation still can be kept.
  • The switch to a public group can only be reverted within the next 5 days by any of the group admins.
  • The group will be labeled as Public.

📲 If you want to see en example group you can check Android Testers group moderated by TestingCatalog.

Facebook Public Group experience beta settings on Android
Facebook Public Group experience beta settings on Android

Tester Context:

  • 📲 Facebook is a well-known social media app that also owns Instagram and WhatsApp.
  • 📲 Facebook is available in Beta and you can opt-in as a tester via Google Play. The beta program is getting full quite often but Facebook devs are extending it from time to time.
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