Meta Quietly Launches 'Forum,' a Standalone Facebook Groups App

Meta contiguous launched a caller standalone app called "Forum" that brings Facebook Groups into a dedicated provender abstracted from the main Facebook experience.


The app was spotted by Matt Navarra without immoderate ceremonial announcement from the company. Its App Store listing describes Forum arsenic "a dedicated abstraction for the conversations that substance astir to you," built for the groups users already beryllium to and those they person yet to discover.

Forum's provender surfaces conversations from a user's existing Groups alternatively of mixing them with posts from friends, Pages, and algorithmically recommended content. When logging successful for the archetypal time, users are asked what they privation to spot much of, suggesting the app volition besides aboveground posts from different Groups aligned with their interests. Any station made done Forum syncs backmost to the main Facebook app, and vice versa.

Users volition request an existing Facebook relationship to motion in. The app supports anonymized usernames for nationalist interactions, akin to the enactment already disposable connected Facebook, though radical administrators tin inactive spot the existent identities down those accounts.

Two AI features are disposable successful Forum. The first, called "Ask," is said to propulsion answers from crossed a user's Groups truthful they don't person to hunt each assemblage individually. The 2nd is an AI-powered adjunct for radical moderators to assistance negociate administrative tasks.

This is not Meta's archetypal effort astatine a standalone Groups product. The institution launched a dedicated Facebook Groups app years agone earlier discontinuing it successful 2017.

A examination to Reddit has been drawn fixed the app's absorption connected niche assemblage discussions, real-people recommendations, and question-and-answer benignant content. Forum is available connected the App Store now.
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