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According to stackexchange.com, the network has 94 Q&A sites:

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But the new about page disagrees:

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My first guess was that the about page count included private betas, but according to Area 51 there are only two of them currently (ELL and Magento). Tim Stone has a better explanation for the inconsistency:

There are 98 sites, two of which are private betas, and two of which are Meta Stack Overflow and StackApps, which are only main_site Q&A sites in the technical sense. The about page should show 94 sites.

Whatever the reason, the counts shouldn't really be different, let's pick one and stick with it.

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  • Bonus bug: The counts in the first screenshot should be in the same line.
    – yannis
    Commented Jan 27, 2013 at 12:33
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    A manual count of the all sites list gives me 96...
    – Martijn Pieters
    Commented Jan 27, 2013 at 12:36
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    @Martijn Pieters: So the answer is the average of both counts.
    – BoltClock's a Unicorn Mod
    Commented Jan 27, 2013 at 12:37
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    @MartijnPieters So, both counts are wrong. Even better ;)
    – yannis
    Commented Jan 27, 2013 at 12:37
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    No freehand circles...
    – ChrisF Mod
    Commented Jan 27, 2013 at 12:39
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    There are 98 sites, two of which are private betas, and two of which are Meta Stack Overflow and StackApps, which are only main_site Q&A sites in the technical sense. The about page should show 94 sites.
    – Tim Stone
    Commented Jan 27, 2013 at 12:46
  • @tim no, MSO is listed. A51 isn't
    – Manishearth
    Commented Jan 27, 2013 at 13:01
  • @Manishearth I know it's listed, it just doesn't "count". Area 51 is automatically excluded because it's not returned by the API.
    – Tim Stone
    Commented Jan 27, 2013 at 13:13
  • I dare someone to close this as a duplicate of the "S" bugs...
    – casperOne Mod
    Commented Jan 27, 2013 at 15:10

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Fixed.

The 4-site discrepancy was due to Meta Stack Overflow, Stack Apps, and 2 private beta sites.

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To get an updated count, you can run this query on Data Explorer

https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1019093/how-many-stackexchange-non-meta-sites-are-there

SELECT count(name) FROM sys.databases
where (name not like '%.Meta' or name = 'StackExchange.Meta')
and database_id > 5

The answer, as of today, is 174, which matches the homepage

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