[tor-bugs] #30540 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Give TBA alpha users a link to stable

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#30540: Give TBA alpha users a link to stable
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 Reporter:  sysrqb                    |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  enhancement               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                    |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                    |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tbb-mobile, ux-team       |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by gk):

 Replying to [comment:2 antonela]:
 > Based on what we talked last week, I made two options to handle this
 issue.
 >
 > 1. Dialog Box - https://www.material.io/design/components/dialogs.html
 >
 > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/30540/1.png
 >
 > hellais suggested to do it in two steps by first asking users if they
 are developers and if they reply NO, then recommend them to download the
 stable app. I approached this version to solve this with one step. In this
 way, when users click [download stable], we open the Tor Browser stable
 download page.
 >
 > 2. First Screen
 >
 > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/attachment/ticket/30540/2.png
 >
 > If we consider that we should block the entire screen for this action,
 we could use a full-screen option. It should show before the onboarding on
 new users and one/two times on recurrent users.

 Thanks. I like option 1, I think. I am not sure about he full-screen
 option. Is that a thing an Android user would expect?

 >
 > We should update the description at Google Play too, so we don't have
 new users downloading the Alpha version by error. It is most urgent, imo.
 I'm adding steph because we need wording for this.

 Agreed.

 > Also, Google Play calls developer versions as `Beta`. Should we attach
 to gplay standards and replace `Alpha` for `Beta` in mobiles?

 I am not sure yet, but we could think about it. Nevertheless, this would
 be a new ticket and we should not try to solve that here, too.

 > We need a funnel for this and define which releases will contain this
 prompt. Also, what is the % of users we expect to move? Will we remove the
 prompt once we achieve it?

 I don't know what % we would expect. I think we should ship it for quite
 some time and we should design the feature in a way that the user gets
 prompted after the first update to a version with the feature under
 discussion here. Subsequent updates should not trigger it. I think users
 that download the alpha now-ish should not get it either given that we
 have the stable around for a while now.

 > If we succeed on the moving, users will still have two versions of TBA
 installed in their devices. Can we do something to prevent users to
 successfully download the stable app but still use the alpha one as
 default?

 Good question. Maybe, I guess?

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