Linked Questions
24 questions linked to/from Let's break up with "Graduation" and remove a bunch of "Beta" labels
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Ch-ch-ch-changes: Left nav, responsive design, & themes
Thanks everyone for your feedback. The team has responded to feedback in the post Left nav, responsive design, and theming next steps
. Check it out.
Ch-ch-ch-changes are coming. As you've ...
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Congratulations to our 29 oldest beta sites - They're now no longer beta!
If you're a user on a long-toiling beta site that's been waiting 7-8 years to get out of beta, this may be the post you've been waiting for.
The 29 Beta sites that are 7+ years old no longer have the ...
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Graduation, site closure, and a clearer outlook on the health of SE sites
Back in April of 2010, Joel shared our assumptions about the role of small sites in the newly minted Stack Exchange network:
If a site does not have enough activity at the end of 90 days, it will be ...
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Should we rename or remove the "beta" label?
So there's news on SE's policies regarding beta sites and graduation. One important take-away was that perpetual beta status is definitely a thing, which doesn't have to mean the site isn't being ...
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What is the Goal of "Hot Network Questions"?
There has been a tug-of-war in the hot-questions list.
Community members like JonW seem to be unhappy with the traffic that it brings to their site:
'But we want to encourage people to post, that's ...
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Design-Independent Graduation is on for early September!
This is a follow-up to an earlier discussion Feedback Requested: Design-Independent Graduation.
Like the title says, design-independent graduation will go into effect and become our new regular ...
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Shutting down recurring community self-evaluations
We've been talking a lot about the efficacy of community self-evaluations lately, both internally on the Community Team and out in the open on meta. Lots of ideas were tossed around, but the ...
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What should the criteria be for Stack Exchange sites to leave beta?
Today SE removed the "beta" label from 29 established sites,
recognizing a need that has been plaguing many of our sites for years. Until today, under SE's rules there were
two states: "graduated" if ...
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Writing.SE clamours for graduation
Writing.SE has raised the issue of our desire to graduate a year ago
Here it is: we're tired of being a beta site. We believe we have been a consistently successful site, we've been around for more ...
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The Real Essential Questions of Every Beta
The blog post Seven Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta gets linked to prominently from every beta's meta. However, this blog post is somewhat inaccurate and misdirects new users. In almost every ...
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Experimenting with Pro Tempore elections
Last spring, I ran an election on Parenting for a new moderator pro tempore. It went pretty well, so this fall we are going to extend the program to sites that have been in "beta" for years. Here's ...
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Give Graduated sites waiting on a custom design something to set themselves apart from Beta sites
I'm really excited that Beta sites waiting on site design are finally getting many of the graduation privileges without having to wait for a fully custom design. For simplicity, I'll be referring to ...
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Unicorn Meta Zoo #4: What makes for a healthy community?
Welcome to the Unicorn Meta Zoo, a podcast by members of the Stack
Exchange community team. If you want to avoid spoilers, jump
straight to the audio.
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We are talking about the ...
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De-emphasising the beta designation by removing it from the banner on perpetual beta sites
I've lost count of the number of times I have had to reassure people that the site I help to moderate isn't going to just go away.
The association between a site being labelled as "Beta" and an ...
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How long until graduated sites get a new site design and increased privileges threshold?
The August 2015 announcement Design-Independent Graduation is on for early September! says that there are 2 phases after a site has graduated:
Phase 1
The Community Team announces that a site is ...
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