Passages
I hope this Community Update finds you in addition to all these emails, assembly invitations, and “let’s start the year strong” messages you marked all as learn have in your Inbox. We’re solely per week into 2024 and a lot has occurred already. We noticed an actual-life “Getting Over It” cosplay at a New Year’s get together, the Internet™ collectively determined that Leon Kennedy would completely smoke Joel, and these are the streets I grew up in.
Over right here at Xbox Insider HQ, we’ve additionally been busy chasing the hamsters again on their wheels (learn: we’re the hamsters) and getting again into the swing of issues. It’s going to be a little bit of a lighter January earlier than we actually kick it into excessive gear for the tenth Anniversary in February. So, let’s check out a few of what we’ve been engaged on:
Connections
You might need observed some adjustments to the format, design, and total look/really feel of our pretty Xbox Wire pages over the previous few months. As a part of our technique shift, we’ve been alternative ways we are able to make the most of the area we’ve got right here on the Xbox Wire and we expect this redesign (in addition to extra attention-grabbing adjustments coming quickly™!) is an effective way to kick issues off.
We’ve additionally been working to make our present content material even higher. It seems, our resident Release Notes Virtuoso, Joshua, by no means acquired off his wheel. In reality, he’s been secretly whipping up some enhancements and updates to Release Notes throughout all classes. We suppose you’ll agree these adjustments will make getting particulars on new builds simpler and quicker than ever!
Why Becomes How
I do know, I do know. Another one for the collage. I had hoped I wouldn’t have to make use of this joke for some time, but it surely’s taking longer than we initially thought for this course of to occur. Apologies for this continued delay. I’ll take this one firmly on the chin although. I didn’t foresee the extra investments we’re now making, however I’m glad we’re making them nonetheless!
Full Tilt
That being stated, we’re truly sprinting forward with a few of our different initiatives, particularly these tied to the tenth Anniversary. One factor I’m excited to share is that we’ll be publishing an absolute glut of content material in February to the Xbox Wire. Interviews from previous, current, (and future?!) Xbox Insider crew members, an oral historical past of this system, and extra will all be popping out to have a good time ten years of great Xbox Insider Program accomplishments and highlights. This is one thing we’re tremendous stoked about and we are able to’t wait for everybody to study extra.
Bright Future
We’ve additionally been working below the proverbial hood on a couple of gadgets that aren’t fairly able to be totally revealed but. These gadgets are being labored on “in-house” inside XIP, and I feel it’s a few of the coolest stuff we’ve got cooking. We’ll be speaking extra about this in February, so keep tuned! In the meantime, please get pleasure from an up to date/modified content material roadmap.
As at all times, I hope everybody loved this installment of the Xbox Insider Program Community Update. If you need to chat about this—and every thing else XIP—hop on over to the r/XboxInsiders subreddit or throw us a comply with @xboxinsider.
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