The LINE community function can help users avoid the "trouble" of changing their display name, image or status in a specific chat group so that other group members can easily identify them. For example, parents with children usually change their account name to "xxx's father/mother" in order to make the school teacher clearly identify them in the parent contact group, but it may seem awkward in other business-related LINE contact groups.

OpenChat community contact service, which was announced at the annual meeting of LINE in Japan last year and has been implemented in Japan, South Korea, Thailand and Indonesia, will finally be implemented in Taiwan Province under the name of "LINE Community", which will accommodate up to 5, participants, and allow participants to represent their personal identification in the group with different names and display images, without affecting the names and display images used in the original LINE account.

This design can help users avoid the "trouble" of changing their personal display name, image or status in a specific chat group, so that other group members can easily identify them. For example, parents with children usually change their account name to "xxx's father/mother" in order to make the school teacher clearly identify them in the parent contact group, but it may seem awkward in other business-related LINE contact groups.

Therefore, the OpenChat community contact service announced at the annual meeting of LINE in Japan last year is not only to make it easier for event operators to integrate and manage online group interactions of up to 5, people (the maximum number of people in a general group is 5), but also to enable users of LINE accounts to set different names and images in different groups without changing the original LINE account to display names in general groups.

The OpenChat service function, which will be called "LINE Community" in Taiwan Province, is expected to provide a small number of LINE account user experiences in the form of trial operation on May 13th, and all LINE account users will be officially opened for testing in late June. It is expected that the official function will be launched before the end of this year.

For usage, you can find all kinds of community content to add through the "Groups" on the LINE homepage and the "Community Home Page" option. Users can set personal preference names and use images in such groups, which is convenient for administrators to identify.

the administrator can make the group settings public, need to enter the password, or need the approval of the administrator to join, and after joining the group, you can see the previous discussions of other people. As for the use, it is the same as the general LINE group, but the maximum number of participants can be as high as 5,, so it can be used to establish star fan groups, company contact groups and so on.

in addition to connecting through the LINE homepage, the "LINE community" can also be quickly accessed through the menu in the upper right corner of the chat page.