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In the footer we have given links to many Stack Exchange Network sites categorized by the type. Each one of them have more (n) at the bottom of their listed links. For example; here is a screenshot of the "SCIENCE" section:

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Upon clicking on "more (7)" link, I see there are total 17 sites under the "Science" header. Ditto goes with other footer sites. For a moment, I thought "more (7)" means there are "7 more sites" apart from the 5 listed above under the Science section. But, then that's not true either because it will add up to total 12 sites (5 listed + 7 more). So, the count does not match to the actual sites they have in there. But the system does have a algorithm to calculate and display the more (number) for these footer sites.

What does the number in "more (7)" refers to? How should one interpret it?

P.S.

Please note, my screenshot does not match to the current "SCIENCE" footer as Oded (♦ moderator) purged the global cache (source (comment): @ShadowWizard - nope, just expired a global, long living cache).

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    Are that only the non-beta sites maybe? There seem to be 7 in total in Science.
    – Patrick Hofman
    Aug 4, 2015 at 11:41
  • @PatrickHofman how do you tell which one is beta and not?
    – HackerKarma
    Aug 4, 2015 at 11:42
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    The icon in front. The 'unstyled' were traditionally the betas.
    – Patrick Hofman
    Aug 4, 2015 at 11:43
  • @PatrickHofman I am counting the icons on others... Can you tell how "Life/Arts" got (10)
    – HackerKarma
    Aug 4, 2015 at 11:47
  • See the answer below. Public betas do count too.
    – Patrick Hofman
    Aug 4, 2015 at 11:48
  • @PatrickHofman refresh the page and see the footer sites and its more count. It's updated
    – HackerKarma
    Aug 4, 2015 at 11:58

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It means, 7 more sites exist in the "Science" category.

These would all be sites in public beta, hence are not showing up with their name.

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  • This is a little confusing. Can the UI be updated so it is a little more meaningful?
    – Patrick Hofman
    Aug 4, 2015 at 11:43
  • What's your suggestion?
    – Oded
    Aug 4, 2015 at 11:44
  • Hey, now I am doing your job ;). Don't know actually. Remove the number, change the number to match the total, or update the label so we know what 7 to expect.
    – Patrick Hofman
    Aug 4, 2015 at 11:45
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    Maybe a tooltip saying what Oded just wrote, @Pat? Adding more text would be too noisy IMO
    – Shadow Wizard Love Zelda
    Aug 4, 2015 at 11:46
  • @Oded I'm little confused as for the "Life/Arts" (10) count goes... do I count icons on the front? It comes to 8
    – HackerKarma
    Aug 4, 2015 at 11:49
  • I don't follow, @HackerKarma - "more", as in "additional". As in, more than the ones shown.
    – Oded
    Aug 4, 2015 at 11:52
  • @Oded maybe replace "more" with "all"?
    – Patrick Hofman
    Aug 4, 2015 at 11:52
  • @PatrickHofman then it would read "all (7)", "all (10)" ... I hope not as that would confuse more. Did you mean to say just "all"?
    – HackerKarma
    Aug 4, 2015 at 11:55
  • @Oded just noticed... the footer sites links "more" counter got updated. now it says "more (5)"
    – HackerKarma
    Aug 4, 2015 at 11:57
  • @Oded did you just add Biology and Chemistry manually now?
    – Shadow Wizard Love Zelda
    Aug 4, 2015 at 12:11
  • @ShadowWizard - nope, just expired a global, long living cache.
    – Oded
    Aug 4, 2015 at 12:11
  • two months cache?? shudder
    – Shadow Wizard Love Zelda
    Aug 4, 2015 at 12:13
  • @Oded changed the title and accepting your answer. One suggestion, may be we can say "see all..." at the bottom instead of "more (n)"
    – HackerKarma
    Aug 4, 2015 at 12:18
  • @ShadowWizard At least 6 months. Expression Engine graduated 2015-01-14 and wasn't in the footer until now.
    – user259867
    Aug 4, 2015 at 21:44
  • Oddly, this didn't make Network Engineering show up in the footer. Or Stack Overflow em Português, which is also a graduated site now.
    – user259867
    Aug 4, 2015 at 21:46

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