{"id":1195,"date":"2009-12-11T00:42:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T07:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2009-12-11T00:43:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T07:43:44","slug":"a-holiday-present-beta-channels-get-satisfaction-and-localized-listings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/addons\/2009\/12\/11\/a-holiday-present-beta-channels-get-satisfaction-and-localized-listings\/","title":{"rendered":"A holiday present: Beta Channels, Get Satisfaction, and Localized Browse"},"content":{"rendered":"

As we’re closing in on the end of an amazing year in add-ons, we’ve finished a few new features which we think will bring some holiday cheer to the lives of add-on developers and users alike.<\/p>\n

Beta Channels<\/p>\n

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Our add-ons platform has been around for years, and there are quite a few add-ons which could be considered software products in and of themselves.\u00a0 Naturally, this means that many users expect a high level of stability and polish from their add-ons, while others are willing to live life on the edge to get to the latest pre-release add-ons.\u00a0 With Beta Channels, add-on developers can release beta or prerelease versions of their add-ons without pushing updates to their entire user base.\u00a0 Unlike experimental add-ons, beta channels provide automatic updates to users who install a beta version.\u00a0 Beta add-ons are unreviewed and can only comprise up to 20% of your total active user population.\u00a0 For more on how to use this feature, visit our Documentation page<\/a> on the Developer Hub.<\/p>\n

Get Satisfaction<\/p>\n

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Providing support for your users is both important and not always easy.\u00a0 Now, thanks to Get Satisfaction<\/a>, you can integrate your support communities directly in AMO.\u00a0 With a free Get Satisfaction<\/a> account you can create a community where you can easily keep track of your user’s problems, get feedback, and empower your community to help each other for support problems.\u00a0 Simply sign for a free account, create your community and enter the pertinent information in your Developer Control Panel.<\/p>\n

Localized Browse<\/p>\n

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We’re working to make the AMO experience better for the many add-ons users who don’t speak English.\u00a0 Towards this end, we’ve created a filter for the browse pages so that you can restrict the view to only add-ons with a localized description for the selected locale.\u00a0 Check out our listings of add-ons with German descriptions<\/a> to see how this works.\u00a0 We’re going to expand this feature to work on larger parts of the site, and this is a first step towards making add-ons more accessible to the non English speaking world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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