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A few changes at Nokia Beta Labs

Mon, 2011-10-17 15:21

After today's service break, there are a few changes to note at the Nokia Beta Labs website.  Behind the scenes we deployed a number of updates to improve the publishing capabilites for developers and a few things for our moderators too, but these are the most visible items for you:

  • On the Nokia Beta Labs homepage, your list of My Trials is now sorted more logically:
    • Trials that have been recently updated are shown first
    • Once you try the updated app it is sorted among the others by date of latest update
  • On the Apps page you can now filter the catalog of compatible apps per each device in your profile
  • Daily digest emails of new forum responses will also contain mention of:
    • New apps compatible with your devices**
    • Updates to trials you are a member of**
  • Fixed a bug on the give-feedback form which pushed the "Submit" button out of view in some cases
  • New favicon common to all Nokia sites

** To limit the number of emails going out to you, in this first phase you will only receive notifications of new/updated apps if you'd be receiving a daily digest email with forum responses anyway.

We hope you find these changes useful, and thanks again for your patience during the service break.

- John, community facilitator @ Nokia Beta Labs

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Submitted by EskeRahn on 17-10-2011 16:27.

Thanks for the fixes/improvements

Allow me to recommend that the "Newly updated" on the front page ONLY appears if you have not already downloaded it in that version...

And similarly mark apps in the apps page if they have been updated since you downloaded it last.
(You may have given up following a previous version, but could be interested in the new one)

Best Regards
Eske Rahn

Submitted by markow76 on 17-10-2011 17:45.

@EskeRahn - To your first point, that's how it works. You get the "Recently updated" flag on the My Trials list until you grab the update. After that it gets bumped down the list according to date of update.

John - Community Facilitator @ Beta Labs

Submitted by mbrett on 18-10-2011 23:32.

Sorry for the delayed comment as just got home from holiday this evening.

Liking the tweaks to the GUI and apprecieate all the hard work you put into the site.

Thanks.

mbrett
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Submitted by D0NR03 on 20-10-2011 13:55.

if you go to betalabs.nokia.com, you still get the service under maintenance site?!

Submitted by markow76 on 21-10-2011 10:14.

@D0NR03 - How did you comment on this site then?

John - Community Facilitator @ Beta Labs