After community complaints about it being too cluttered, Microsoft says it’s changing the direction of planned changes to the Xbox Home dashboard.
In September 2022, Microsoft announced an invitation to Xbox Insiders. “Help shape the new Xbox Home experience.” The test was “a series of months-long experiments to learn how to create a more personalized home screen experience and address some of the top trends and fan requests.”
Unfortunately, the change was not as well received as Microsoft and the company had hoped. blog post, It said it would pause these experiments and work to “balance experience, accessibility, functionality, and the needs of our community to deliver a wonderfully refreshed home experience.”
One of the biggest issues the community had was how crowded everything was and how the new UI blocked the backgrounds users could choose from. As you can see in Microsoft’s image below, Halo’s imagery is blocked by almost all tiles, and the community would like a little more balance between the items you interact with and the backgrounds that make the home your own. is.
As Microsoft works to address complaints, Alpha and Alpha-Skip Xbox Insiders will be reverted to the original Xbox Home experience they were using, with their previous settings and backgrounds enabled prior to testing. The “new home” setting is saved for future use.
“Thank you for all the feedback you’ve shared. This is an important part of our process and our team is working hard to incorporate it into the experience and make it available.” said Ivy Krislov, senior product manager lead at Xbox. experience, said. “We are excited to share more details soon!”
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