Slow roll out to all users is a good way of seeing if it’s popular or noticed across all users rather than just those who use the forum or social media
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Again i agree with you in that this is a very small feature that not alot could really go wrong with and possibly isnt the best case to use TF/Betas for.
In this small case though if it was ready for employee testing 3 weeks ago and they had a high confidence… put it on TF/Beta. Otherwise whats the point in signing up to TF/Beta?
All my own personal opinion by the way and I’m not saying my opinion is gospel. I just think without the deep dives from @nexusmaniac betas dont give users much extra for being willing to help monzo and try things earlier like they possible should
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In agreement with that point
I see the point of Labs for completely new features and for deploying new code to Android beta (is that directly equivalent in principle to TF on iOS?), but this is obviously something that can be turned on in existing code or run on the server
It is a pretty small cosmetic change in the grand scheme of things so probably more important to throw numbers at it rather than test it further
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I think that Monzo could definitely get better at using Labs and TF but at least for this change, I don’t see either helping Monzo or the customer.
I agree with you exactly,
Labs = new “half-baked” features where feedback would be valuable
TF/BETA = for possibly app-crashing coding changes
The likely story for a 20% roll out is to ensure that the servers can handle it all - TF wouldn’t help prove or solve this. I also suspect that with ANY update, it is rolled out to tranches at a time.
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So, custom images are great. However, the implementation needs to be tidied up a bit.
The pots show in a rectangular window, but when you are selecting an image, you are placing it in a square window, thereby guessing which bits will be cropped off… it’s a bit hit or miss to get things lined up so they appear as you want them on the pot screen.
Aside from that, looks fab.
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Can someone take a screenshot of this rectangle/square thing? 
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Just checked on my app (not on test flight or beta testing) I now have the feature too! Funny how such a small change makes me want to save more 
I dunno, as I’ve said above, I think it’s fine - its just on a roll-out and will eventually reach everyone, I don’t see the messy’ness’ here. 
Might just be me
Well it’s the little things that I think matter here.
Uploaded an image of the empire state building for a ‘New York’ pot and having the top of it cropped and no way for me to easily figure out where in the ‘selection box’ to place the image to stop that happening seems a bit shoddy. Setting that selection box to the same ratio as you see when you visit the account screen would seem to be a simple solution.
I’ll go out on a bit of a limb and say this is poor product design. Technically sure it works fine but the user experience suffers slightly. I’d love to know if anyone with a UI design background was involved in that decision.
Edited to add screenshot of the square selection box… 
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I’m sure I’ve seen posts from Monzo staff that suggest this has been in staff testing for a while. Surely someone must have spotted the issues around cropping and suggested it get fixed before rolling out? The feature has been coming “
” for a very long time! There must have been an opportunities to get it right 
Ah apologies, I thought you were taking about the roll-out!
In which case yes I do agree with you that it seems slightly messy in terms of the actual feature.
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The amount of time it took to do this you would have thought it would have been spot on but then given Monzos track record of just releasing things ‘half done’ this doesn’t really surprise me tbh.
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Kinda just needs the card shape overlay, then it’s fine. The square version could just be an automatic centre cutout out of the rectangle 🤷
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Something that would have maybe been pointed out if it was put into TF/Betas first maybe 
I’ve just had it added so continuing to roll it out…ios 
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Thanks Dave, just checked and I’ve now got it!! Whoop!!
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Point taken - but you’d have thought this would be picked up by Employee Beta
Its out!! Whoops 
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No I agree it definitely should have.
Just goes to show maybe employee only testing might not be the way to go though, monzo employees arent going to scrutinise as hard as the end monzo customers
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