Got a message about being interested in joining the Alpha ring, how do I actually join?

Hi Natpars,

so how the program works is that by joining a higher up ring you get access to updates before the lower down rings and due to skip ahead being a new ring it is a limited number ring like all alpha but you will have to rejoin beta ring if you do leave alpha
skip ahead ring. you do not drop to your previous ring.

Hello,

i am from Germany ....

Now i want to join Alpha Ring, but Microsoft Support tells me, the only way i can join Alpha Ring ist via Invite from another People in the Alpha Ring.

But i dont know anyone in Alpha Ring.

What can i do to join Alpha Ring in XBOX Insider Hub?

Greetings from Germany as well.

Previously, before there were rings, you had to be invited by someone already in the "Xbox Preview Program" as it was called back then.

This was then changed to the Xbox Insider Program, and anyone was able to join by installing the Xbox Insider App, and anyone is allowed to choose a ring up to Beta.

Alpha and Alpha Skip Ahead are only available by invitation from someone at Microsoft, and only if new free slots are available.

You will have to "earn" the privilege to be considered by providing regular and quality feedback, and hope that there are Alpha/Skip Ahead members that provided less feedback, and are removed from the Alpha/Skip Ahead rings.

So the only thing we can suggest is to be patient, and to continue participating in the available activities, and wait for the invitation.

Hi CheeryNote! My name is Ricardo an independent advisor ready to help you with this situation!

To join you need to be invited, there's no other way to do it, last year they shared a post on how to show interest on be invited and also what kind of users they look, you can see all that information here

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/11/30/are-you-...

The Insider Program doesn't operate on invites from other members in that specific preview ring. So the information you received from a support agent may not be entirely correct. Each preview ring has a limited number of "seats" open at any one given time.
Delta through Beta are all open access to the general public and your qualification for being able to join those rings are based off of your activity in the Insider Program, level in the Insider Program, and the diversity of what you do on Xbox Live. They
occasionally do a survey on the Insider Hub app asking for people who would be interested in joining either the Alpha or Alpha Skip-Ahead rings. Both of those rings are invite only but, the invites only come from Microsoft themselves via the Insider Hub app.
Being an Xbox Ambassador may help you get into those rings, as it may you look better and more qualified, but it doesn't guarantee you a seat. As a side note, the survey also doesn't guarantee you a seat when they send it out. Its essentially a first come
and served basis.

I'm level 12 in the Insider Program, that's over about 2yrs of activity and I just recently got invited into the Alpha Skip-Ahead ring. I can confirm you cannot invite other players to join the ring and it has to be done by Microsoft through the team that
runs the Insider Program.

Its invite only. They occasionally send out invites/put out surveys asking for people who'd be interested. I've got a 1yr 8month tenure with about 750 XP and I'm in beta as well. I've only ever seen the survey asking for people who'd be interested in joining
the alpha ring the one time so... its just a waiting game I'm sure.