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While scrolling through the sites list of Stack Exchange, I found that some sites don't even get a question a day. For example, Beer, Wine & Spirits, Veganism & Vegetarianism and Ebooks. Some sites even have fewer than 50 visits per day.

What happens to those sites? Will they be closed as a result, or will Stack Exchange do anything to try and "save them"?

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    They will be viewed by a smaller audience? I'm not sure what you're asking. Note that some sites are in beta phase. See Area 51 - FAQ for more info.
    – 41686d6564
    Commented Aug 23, 2020 at 6:10
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    I dont understand the downvotes. This is a valid question, and attracted a factual answer.
    – GhostCat
    Commented Aug 24, 2020 at 6:00
  • @GhostCat votes on Meta are very rarely given based on whether the question is valid or not. It's all about what people feel about what's being discussed. I'll take a guess and assume downvotes here are due to the question being trivial, or not clear to some people.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Aug 24, 2020 at 6:42
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    There's no need to add Stack Exchange on every site, I have never heard anyone call EL&U "English Language & Usage Stack Exchange", every site belongs to its "mother".
    – Mari-Lou A Слава Україні
    Commented Aug 29, 2020 at 8:43

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If a community around a topic of a site is no longer actively maintaining or building the body of knowledge each SE site wants to be, then a site will be closed and archived.

From Graduation, site closure, and a clearer outlook on the health of SE sites

If a public beta site does not produce consistently helpful content, and lacks the caretakers needed for flags and spam to get handled and our Be Nice policy to be upheld, it will be closed.

Before that decision is made a community manager will probably reach out on site meta and see if there is anything they can do to revive the sites topic. Tweaking the site scope can be considered. Or a rename.

If the options have run out then the site will close. This happened before (twice on the same topic) and will happen in the future. The questions and answers are preserved in a datadump.

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    I can see the company doing anything with a small site these days unless the site gives them problems, eg someone on twitter does not like it. It takes staff time to close down a site.
    – Ian Ringrose
    Commented Aug 23, 2020 at 20:50
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    @IanRingrose yeah, it will not be the highest, if any priority. They are certainly not actively looking for sites to close.
    – rene Mod
    Commented Aug 23, 2020 at 21:06

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