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A few changes at Nokia Beta Labs

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:

New at the site: "My recent activity" and "My starred items" help you keep track of contributions

After today's service break we've got a few things to share with you to make it easier to keep track of previous contributions here at Nokia Beta Labs.  We hope you like them.

My feedback threads

Many of you have asked for an easy way to browse all posts you have made here at Nokia Beta Labs.  Now it's here, and it's called "My feedback threads".  In this view you can browse all of the threads in which you've posted (i.e. created or commented).  Those are sorted by date of latest update to the thread.

Maintenance break today at 13:00 EEST

[Corrected time, was 12 earlier, correct time is 13]

We have a maintenance break at 12 13:00 Eastern European Summer Time, and it may last up to 2 hours. Thank you for your patience.

- Beta Labs crew

Nokia Beta Labs updated design: New. Blue. You.

Like the trials that we host, Nokia Beta Labs itself is always trying to improve based on the feedback from the community and from developers running trials here.  Today, we have unveiled a new "look" for our site, designed to make the experience of participating in beta trials more personal and more enjoyable.  Thanks for your patience during today's service break.

New.  Blue.  You.

First, we've cleaned up the not-signed-in homepage dramatically to clarify to any first-time visitors what we're about and what kinds of trials we host here.

Service break on Monday, March 28 @ 10:00 EEST (UTC+3)

Starting at 10:00 EEST (click to convert to local time) on Monday, March 28 we'll have a service break at Nokia Beta Labs to make some updates to the site.  We expect the break to last up to two hours.

During that time the site content, forum, and blog will be unavailable.  Our apologies for any inconvenience this causes.

- John, Community Facilitator @ Nokia Beta Labs

Beta Labs feedback survey results summarized

It's time to reveal the results of the survey done last month. I'm happy to say we got over 600 responses, so the results are quite a representative selection. The results are clearly positive. Looking back at the conclusions 8 months ago, the work done since and the survey results now, our team is confident our actions had a positive impact.

Reminder: Help a student and Beta Labs by answering a survey

A big thanks to those that have answered the survey already!  If you haven't, please read on...

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Scheduled service break completed

Today's scheduled service break is now over.  Thanks for your patience. 

Many of today's updates are only visible to development teams and have been designed to help them follow your feedback and manage their trial better.

We've also made some bug fixes throughout the site, including:

Site updates at Nokia Beta Labs highlight relevant content for you

During the site maintenance break yesterday we managed to deploy some important updates to help keep the site running smoothly and fix some bugs.  Additionally, we've added a few features that should provide visible benefit to you, the Nokia Beta Labs community, especially when you are signed into the site.

Your voice on how well Beta Labs is doing - survey results

Some two weeks back, I asked you to fill out a survey. Almost 300 of you did, and I thank you all for doing so!