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One way to do this is to make it a part of a beta program rather than baked into the main app. That makes it slightly more manageable for the developers too.
by duped 5y ago
One way to do this is to make it a part of a beta program rather than baked into the main app. That makes it slightly more manageable for the developers too.
- stavros 5y agoThat's true, but I don't know how many would bother installing the beta, especially given that most distributions use stable. This would be the same as opt-in telemetry.
- alpaca128 5y agoWindows Insider already had over 10 million users 4 years ago[0]. I'd say that approach works well enough. I myself used it on Windows Phone 8, because some upcoming updates came with cool features and being in the Insider program gave me earlier access. I also used Firefox Nightly for a while because of the massive performance improvements at that time. As Audacity claims they're doing it for UX improvements, it would be easy to get frequent Audacity users interested in a beta build featuring tracking but also all the improvements being tested. [0] https://www.networkworld.com/article/3185461/windows-insider-program-surpasses-10-million-users.html https://www.networkworld.com/article/3185461/windows-insider...