Along with the announcement of an Edits app that Instagram is developing for deeper photo and video editing purposes, Instagram is also apparently developing a new feature where content creators can introduce built-in communities where their followers can chat with each other in one place, similar to the Discord app.
The feature is technically unnamed yet, but it was called “Community Chat” and was shared by Alessandro Paluzzi on Threads, where up to 250 followers can be included in this group to chat with each other.
The Community Chat feature will also apparently come with the ability to allow community owners to control content, and Instagram will also ensure that all of the platform’s rules are followed.
At the moment, it is not known when Instagram will introduce this feature, but it appears to be in development and in the internal testing phase, with no plans to test it publicly.