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We actually promoted pre-releases long before VS Code added official support for them in the UI. When the UI was added we removed our promotion in favor of giving VS Code a chance to encourage users to install our pre-releases. Unfortunately, participation in our pre-releases declined significantly. We rely on feedback from users in the pre-release to help us identify issues we don't hit during our in-house testing and our stable release quality suffered as a result. After discussing this with the VS Code team, we both concluded that adding our prompt back was the best solution for us.
Many users like to have access to features and bug fixes as early as possible but are unaware that there is a way to get them before they are more widely available. When more people install the pre-release and provide feedback to us, this has the added benefit of making our stable releases more stable and less likely to need major patches, so everyone benefits. |
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Fair enough, thanks for explaining! |
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Setting up my environment from scratch here again and I'm wondering what the intent is with this pop-up is, exactly?
It was added in #11569 but there's no reason given in the PR. Users who know what they're doing and want the pre-release version can already switch to it easily through the UI, no?
For me, a prompt like this signals something like --- the stable version is outdated and actually you want to use the pre-release version normally, or something along these lines. Why would everyday users want to use the pre-release version otherwise, enough to prompt them about it?
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