Is The 7 Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta still actual / up to date?
In particular, are the points about the elevator pitch, and the site design still necessary to discuss in a site in beta phase?
So far, I have not seen any site using an elevator pitch; English Language & Usage has a blog, but I don't see any elevator pitch in the blog, nor in the main site. The design is decided when the site is going to graduate, and the designer who works in that already open a question on the meta site to show a preview of how the site will appear; the same question is normally used to point out things that would need to be changed, or that could be changed.