[oculusthrift]

isn’t that how most companies launch products now adays? test it on 1 pct of users before full launch?

[lozenge]

The issue is picking the users that are manually checking for updates. This used to be a precaution people applied onto their system, now it can actually make your system less stable.

[setr]

Isn't that the point of nightly/beta opt-in builds? Shipping to 1% of stable would be more for testing scale-handling, whether people like it, etc, but the software itself should be relatively stable at that point

[AnIdiotOnTheNet]

Yes, the modern practice is to treat customers as cattle.