Timeline for Let's break up with "Graduation" and remove a bunch of "Beta" labels
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| Dec 12, 2017 at 20:09 | history | bounty ended | Sir Cumference | ||
| Dec 6, 2017 at 9:25 | history | bounty ended | gnat | ||
| Nov 27, 2017 at 21:25 | comment | added | Catija | @MonicaCellio and me! All of the sites I actually use are "soft" sites. :D | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 20:55 | comment | added | HDE 226868 | @MonicaCellio I remember Shog saying something a while back that people like us are becoming more and more common, which is obviously happening a lot as SE expands more and more. I'd bet that if you take the trilogy out of the picture and just look at the rest of SE, then we're a larger block of the userbase than, say, five years ago. | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 20:43 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | Re note #3, I wonder how much people like you and me are outliers. SO is the big main site and some people obviously cross over from there to other sites (beyond the trilogy, even), but several of my sites are full of people who came in via other paths, many of whom aren't even programmers. There are communities and subcommunities on SE now that are mostly non-programmers. | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 6:53 | comment | added | HDE 226868 | People are, at the end of the day, the problem and the solution. I know I used to (like, two years ago) really focus on the Area 51 stats as a sort of objective measure of whether or not a site was succeeding. But that wasn't the greatest way of looking at a site - a valuable one, but not one that gives the full picture. | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 6:51 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | Well, that's kind of where the graduation process goes beyond pure metrics IMO. Metrics are nice and neat. People are messy bags of meat :) | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 6:50 | comment | added | HDE 226868 | @JourneymanGeek Nice point. I'd hope that that sort of tire fire site wouldn't graduate because it would fail some basic commonsense requirements - obviously, 10 questions/day isn't the only standard - but it certainly doesn't mean that a site is objectively healthy. | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 6:48 | history | edited | HDE 226868 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Used Journeyman Geek's comment as a jumping-off point.
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| Nov 27, 2017 at 6:37 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | Its worth considering, as well that some sites just have a smaller audience, but are meeting other criteria. Not every site can be the shining city on the hill, but if you're keeping your users happy and engaged, and have shown you can manage things, you're doing better than a hypothetical site with 10 QPD and constant raging tirefires. | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 6:29 | history | answered | HDE 226868 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |