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Checking Code Golf & Programming Puzzles Area51 profile page you can see that the page fulfills the requirements to graduate.

Why is it still in beta?

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    Agreed especially with all the amazing questions that come out of that site
    – Anthony Pham
    Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 21:30
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    We at PPCG have been wondering as well. (We've even been planning for graduation.)
    – Calvin's Hobbies
    Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 21:32
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    There's... something peculiar going behind the scenes here. Code Golf should've flipped some switches but it hasn't, so I'll go look into why that's the case.
    – Grace Note StaffMod
    Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 22:25
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    – Addison Crump
    Commented Feb 9, 2016 at 12:12
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    @CloseVoters We did effectively ask this on our site a month ago, and didn't get much of a response.
    – Calvin's Hobbies
    Commented Feb 9, 2016 at 21:49
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    Answer: The powers that be are in denial about our status....
    – user311528
    Commented Feb 9, 2016 at 21:50
  • @GraceNote I don't want to be anoying but any news?
    – Eduard Florinescu
    Commented Feb 10, 2016 at 16:00
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    @EduardFlorinescu Give it time. Graduating isn't necessarily a quick thing :)
    – Zizouz212
    Commented Feb 11, 2016 at 1:25
  • I meant "loose ends in the bounty comment"
    – Eduard Florinescu
    Commented Feb 13, 2016 at 20:50
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    Note that your screenshot shows fewer than 10 questions per day, but we've now exceeded that and all of our stats are rated "Excellent." ;)
    – Alex A.
    Commented Feb 15, 2016 at 18:42
  • @GraceNote Are you there? It's us, PPCG.
    – user307833
    Commented Feb 21, 2016 at 5:14
  • Using Q&A measurements to determine whether or not a site that is not a Q&A site should graduate seems kinda weird.
    – Simon Forsberg
    Commented Feb 23, 2016 at 18:49
  • Mark this as [status-complete]!
    – Stevoisiak
    Commented Jul 14, 2017 at 16:26

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As of today, PPCG's graduation has been officially announced! Thanks Grace Note for working with us, and all the hard work put in by PPCG users in making the site ready to graduate!

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Just in case you might miss it. Grace Note in a comment to an answer:

Music and Japanese were in the loop before we set the new criteria. Aviation hit "eligibility" on October 19th. All 3 had delayed graduations, the former because of the whole design thing and the latter due to the pileup of graduations from implementing design independent. We just ran Code Golf through the eligibility check though, and it passed, and probably should've passed a while ago. So we're looking into why it hasn't been flagged yet.

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I suspect, as per Graduation, site closure, and a clearer outlook on the health of SE sites, that it is the questions/day that are delaying graduation:

When a site starts to consistently receive 10 questions/day, we’ll consider it for graduation.

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    That's nice in theory. However, Japanese Language has fewer/day for questions. Fewer avid users. And fewer views/day. Or you could look at Music or Avaiation. Those are sites moving through the graduation process with more shaky number fundamentals than PCG.
    – user213963
    Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 21:42
  • I wonder when the wheels to graduation for those sites were set in motion. Perhaps it was prior to the new policy. If not, I think you have a very good case to ask your moderators to seek clarification from SE.
    – PolyGeo
    Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 21:49
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    Probably also worth noting that Christianity.SE (the site I moderate) has fewer questions per day on average than PPCG. It's been graduated for a few years.
    – El'endia Starman
    Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 22:13
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    The Japanese one says it was "Launched" 5 months ago. Music was also launched 5 months ago. Aviation was only launched 2 months ago. The post you mentioned was posted 8 months ago. That's half a year for Aviation to move to 'launched' while PCG has sat in Beta. Aviation has only been around for 2 years, while PCG has been able to sustain its questions/day for five years.
    – user213963
    Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 22:14
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    @MichaelT Music and Japanese were in the loop before we set the new criteria. Aviation hit "eligibility" on October 19th. All 3 had delayed graduations, the former because of the whole design thing and the latter due to the pileup of graduations from implementing design independent. We just ran Code Golf through the eligibility check though, and it passed, and probably should've passed a while ago. So we're looking into why it hasn't been flagged yet.
    – Grace Note StaffMod
    Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 22:28
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    Statistically the longer it passes the harder is to get over 10 questions/day. 8.9 question/day on a total 1830 days is pretty good and stable
    – Eduard Florinescu
    Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 22:29
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    Don't worry, as pro-tem on a site where 2 questions/day is a purple patch, I think to get anywhere near 10 is great going. Congratulations!
    – PolyGeo
    Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 22:44
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    @GraceNote Could you please update PPCG with any updates asap? Our chat just got quite excited after your comment.
    – Calvin's Hobbies
    Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 22:56
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    @EduardFlorinescu that isn't true, because the average is a running average over 2 weeks.
    – Nathan Merrill
    Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 23:01
  • @NathanMerrill My bad, I kept seeing that score and I thought is general do you know what is the overall score visits/day
    – Eduard Florinescu
    Commented Feb 8, 2016 at 23:27
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    Also note that since in PPCG questions are actually code challenges, you can't expect to have a gazillion challenges every day, because those take some preparation to create (for them to be good) and people can't solve 10+ challenges a day.
    – Fatalize
    Commented Feb 9, 2016 at 10:37
  • @GraceNote Try to schedule PPCG's graduation for November 1st.
    – mbomb007
    Commented Feb 18, 2016 at 22:13

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