{"id":22282,"date":"2018-05-31T22:04:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T22:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/?p=92447"},"modified":"2018-05-31T22:04:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T22:04:04","slug":"r-xboxinsiders-your-voice-and-the-birth-of-feature-fridays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/31\/r-xboxinsiders-your-voice-and-the-birth-of-feature-fridays\/","title":{"rendered":"r\/XboxInsiders, Your Voice, and the Birth of Feature Fridays"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Xbox Insider\u00a0Team has been\u00a0excited to watch the growth of the\u00a0new Subreddit<\/a>\u00a0launched\u00a0earlier\u00a0this month.\u202fNot only has the\u00a0growth surpassed our\u00a0initial\u00a0expectations,\u00a0but\u00a0the number of\u00a0continued\u00a0comments, upvotes, suggestions, reports, and updates has been incredible. To those of you who have been there and participated:\u202fThank you!\u202fIf you haven\u2019t seen the new social space,\u00a0head on over<\/a>\u00a0and check it out!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Listening is key to helping Xbox deliver a great experience.\u202fIt is\u00a0because of\u00a0that desire to listen that we knew we wanted\u00a0a place for\u00a0Xbox Insiders\u00a0to record their ideas, suggestions, and requests for features that they want to see tested through the Xbox Insider Program,\u00a0and we encouraged people to share them with us on the subreddit.\u202f With such quick growth, however, a few things became clear to us very early\u00a0on\u00a0about how we organize this new space. \u202fSoon after launch, we found the sub filled with these feature requests\u00a0while other readers told\u00a0us they wanted a faster way to get to the content that they came for, which included more than just ideas and suggestions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As a team with a culture of listening, we had an interesting challenge. Some Insiders wanted a place to share and be excited about their ideas. Xbox Staff members were reading, commenting, and envisioning how this would work on the platform. Still other Insiders\u00a0found it difficult to find\u00a0the\u00a0news, information, and conversations that mattered to them. How do we balance each of these needs?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Our partners at r\/XboxOne gave us a remarkably elegant and simple solution that fits\u00a0the goals of encouraging ideas and keeping the main page tidy.\u202f\u00a0Feature Friday<\/a>\u00a0was born.\u202fFeature Friday is a weekly thread, open every day of the week and refreshed on Fridays, that\u00a0serves as\u00a0the destination for\u00a0all of\u00a0the ideas that\u00a0Xbox\u00a0Insiders want to see tested through the Xbox Insider Program.\u202fThroughout the three weeks of Feature Friday that we\u2019ve hosted already, we\u2019ve collected over 200 distinct comments from\u00a0Xbox Insiders\u00a0and shared the top vote-getters from week to week.\u202f\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This change in the r\/XboxInsiders\u00a0subreddit becomes especially important as we also change the way we utilize UserVoice for ideas and votes.\u202f As you\u00a0may have already read<\/a>, we\u2019re\u00a0taking\u00a0a much more focused approach to how we collect feedback with UserVoice, in order to give your votes the most impact. On the\u00a0new Xbox Ideas site,<\/a>\u00a0we\u2019re asking you to submit, vote, and help us prioritize what you want to see within specific feature families of things we know we can go work on.\u202fFeature Friday becomes a supplement to this, offering a place for you to submit specific suggestions that may not be related to a current Idea Drive campaign.\u202fBecause we allow and encourage\u00a0the\u00a0reposting of suggestions on Feature Friday from week to week, you can carry conversations through a weekly refresh and continue refining concepts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Xbox Staff are active in both places \u2013 checking up on the Idea Drive campaigns that their teams have at\u00a0xboxideas.uservoice.com<\/a>\u00a0and scouring new feature requests and discussions in\u00a0Feature Friday<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0weekly recaps.\u202fWe\u2019re listening, because it\u2019s key to delivering the experience that you want to have and because it\u2019s a core part of our culture.\u202f\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Xbox Insider\u00a0Team has been\u00a0excited to watch the growth of the\u00a0new Subreddit\u00a0launched\u00a0earlier\u00a0this month.\u202fNot only has the\u00a0growth surpassed our\u00a0initial\u00a0expectations,\u00a0but\u00a0the number of\u00a0continued\u00a0comments, upvotes, suggestions, reports, and updates has been incredible. To those of you who have been there and participated:\u202fThank you!\u202fIf you haven\u2019t seen the new social space,\u00a0head on over\u00a0and check it out!\u00a0 Listening is key to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}