Questions tagged [beta-sites]
For posts that are related to those Stack Exchange sites which are currently in beta phase.
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"Help us Grow This Site" Twitter/X and Facebook buttons on Public Beta sites broken
If you go to any public beta site's homepage, Programming Language Design and Implementation for example, you'll find a box like this:
The Facebook and Twitter/X share buttons rely on a service ...
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What was it like being a GenAI.SE stakeholder?
For those who don't know, Generative AI Stack Exchange (now in public beta) was an initiative started by Stack Exchange here slightly over one month ago, and involved "stakeholders" (who ...
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Sites freshly in public beta should not be on Hot Network Questions
While I'm generally supportive of new Betas, I feel like a site that's brand new—in this case PLDI, which hasn't had a moderation team in place, and is still working out the 'details' of scope—ought ...
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Why didn't CS50 (a Beta SE site) graduate?
I hope this doesn't open Pandora's Box regarding public beta site graduation. I read several posts on the topic and realize it has generated a lot of discussion. Let's break up with "Graduation&...
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Can one propose a new SE site for a topic which has been already closed as a beta?
There was a proposal for an Arabic Language SE closed after 61 days in beta.
Can one suggest to re-open such a closed beta site after several years? There may be increased attention and public ...
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Default election question about reaching 10k or 20k rep is inaccurate for sites with beta-level privileges
One of the default questions in election questionnaires is
In what way do you feel that being a moderator will make you more effective as opposed to simply reaching 10k or 20k rep?
(source)
That was ...
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Should I advertise a Beta site by posting on Metas of other related sites?
Our Bioacoustics SE site has reached the beta stage. This multidisciplinary site encompasses many disciplines, and there are potential overlaps with other general SE sites.
I posted an "ad" ...
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Change "90 days" to "6 months" in public beta notice on Area 51, and change progress bar speed if possible
On proposals for sites in public beta, in the top right, Area 51 displays the following text regarding public beta sites
Sites remain in beta for at least 90 days to build up a critical mass of users,...
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What motivated the team to change the rules on migration paths to beta sites? Under what cases will implementing one be considered?
I was reading this post which states that:
Traditionally we avoided allowing [normal user] migration paths to [...] beta sites, though that's less true more recently.
In the past, SE enforced a ...
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Are the private-beta sites also under Creative Common license?
The SE questions/answers are under the CC BY-SA license (ref).
Does it also include the beta sites that are still in the private stage?
--> If yes, isn't there a contradiction between this license ...
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What happens to the content of a SE site that has been closed?
The SE questions/answers are under the CC BY-SA license (ref). When a beta site does not make it and is closed, what happens to its content? Is it lost forever or is there a way to access the CC BY-SA ...
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Are all undesigned graduated sites getting their design? [duplicate]
As of recently SE has hired new developers to make site designs it appears:
Bitcoin
Ethereum
Others?
There are many more sites that have lost their beta labels, and graduated since SE stopped ...
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Cardano is leaving Beta
Congratulations to the community on Cardano! They have officially left Public Beta as of today.
In December, we had 59 sites on the Stack Exchange Network shed their Beta labels. We also announced ...
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Can communities come up with their own site design?
What if a formerly beta site itself (on the site meta) comes up with a temporary design and provides all the needed images in the required formats and resolutions? Would Stack Exchange consider such a ...
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Congratulations to the 59 sites that just left Beta
This is an exciting day for all of us who work on community here, and for the communities that have given thousands of hours of their time to build sites on the Stack Exchange network. Today, we are ...
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If a pro-tem moderator was elected (not appointed), do they then face another election when a beta site graduates?
Many pro-tem moderators on older beta sites appear to have been appointed. However, for newer beta sites and in some cases of long running beta sites, they are now actually elected in.
The question is,...
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What happens to the questions after a Stack Exchange beta site closes? [duplicate]
When a Stack Exchange site labeled beta closes, what happens to the questions that were posted on the site? Do they ever get archived somewhere, or are they all just gone?
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Should we reconsider the requirements for making new cryptocurrency sites?
This post by Sara Chipps says that "Area 51 lifecycle" is one of the things that SE plans to work on in the next month (June 2021), but it's not clear what exactly is going to happen.
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"Join this community" button is not really a button on Meta sites of beta sites
Compare these two screenshots:
Beta site
Beta's meta site
In the latter it is hardly obvious that the "Join this community" is a button, unless you hover over it:
Then the colour becomes ...
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Intro page for new private beta sites contains incorrect sentence about going public
When signing into a new private beta site for the first time, there's a gatekeeper screen that looks like this:
At the end of this message, there's a sentence that says:
We expect this site to go ...
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How can I volunteer to keep a Beta site alive?
I've literally just noticed that an SE site I love and have been contributing to diligently for years, is still in the dreaded Beta. (side note - that "Beta" designation should be way more ...
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How can we preserve Area 51 sites that get closed during the beta?
This is the second time I've been hit by an Area 51 site I got really involved in (Productivity.SE), being closed due to "not enough activity" (the first was Startups).
Productivity.SE was ...
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Best SE site to ask about AA battery details?
Might be a topic that slips in the cracks. It sort of fits the "consumer electronics" and "gadgets" site attempts, I'm not sure whether it would be welcome in "electrical ...
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Are the 'Quantum Computing' and 'Artificial Intelligence' sites still in Beta?
On Area 51, the proposal pages for Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence both say, "This site is in Public Beta".
However, the Home pages of Quantum Computing and Artificial ...
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Link to "help us create it" on tag info page is barely visible on Beta Meta sites
The tag info page of a tag without a wiki and an excerpt has a request in place of the excerpt, of the form:
The moderator-training tag has no usage guidance, can you help us create it?
The link ...
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What's the policy on crossposting unnoticed posts from beta communities? [duplicate]
I have posted a question that in my opinion fits best into a beta community.
Overall, the attention was not satisfactory although I even posted a bounty and the limited response I got was positive. ...
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Has there been a significant change of activity in the 29 old beta sites that graduated in August 2019 since the graduation?
In August 2019, 29 of the oldest beta sites graduated (in name at least) in an attempt to "mean the end of the monolith we currently refer to as "Graduation" in favor of a well-defined set of small ...
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See upvote/downvote counts before being able to cast close votes on Beta sites
As per this question, on "Launched" sites, the privilege to see upvote/downvote counts is awarded at 1000 reputation, while casting close/reopen votes is awarded at 3000 reputation.
On Beta sites (...
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Easy way to access beta sites
The sites I participat(ed) in are linked on the top right in "your communities" for easy switching between them. However the beta sites don't seem to be there (like Open Source). Is there any UI ...
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Description of Stack Exchange Beta site removed after joining a site
When you visit the website of a beta Stack Exchange site you are not a member of, you are greeted with a nice description of the site. For example, on
Operations Research Beta you see the following:
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In beta site chat rooms, the account suspension message is nearly unreadable [duplicate]
On the Board and Card games chat site, the account suspension message is very difficult to see. In my browser (Chrome on Linux) it looks like this:
For anyone who has trouble seeing it, that says
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Exact dates of stages before launch of a website [duplicate]
Is it possible to know the exact dates at which Stack Exchange websites have passed each of the development stages before being launched officially? I refer to date of proposal, date of commitment, ...
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Review queues are in a different order on different sites
This is Politics’ review queues order in the dropdown:
This is Science Fiction & Fantasy’s:
The order is the same on Mi Yodeya.
Why are they in a different order? Is this a bug?
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Will the recent flush of Beta graduations impact sites that meet criteria?
In the recent big news Congratulations to our 29 oldest beta sites - They're now no longer beta! a bunch of sites got "Promoted" and I think that is great and I don't have any issues with it. But ...
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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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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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How to distinguish beta sites from non-beta sites in a cross-site SEDE query?
The question Mod team updates and site status on Code Review Meta contains a SEDE query by @rolfl to compare sites on how many of a certain badge they have. My eyes fell on the following comment
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Escaped line break tag in tooltip on election page
Over on Lifehacks (a beta site with the standard beta template) we're having an election. I just cast my votes and was presented this tooltip:
Please fix the escaped line break tag so it either ...
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Why was the main criterion for graduation specifically chosen as 10 questions per day?
Prior to July 2015, site graduation was basically decided subjectively by the SE team, based on the site's Area 51 statistics and the capacity of the design team. From what I recall, it was basically ...
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Are beta stats removed from the home page?
We are generally shown stats of beta sites on the right side of home page under watched and ignored tags. I am not able to see them now. In the place of beta stats, I am directly seeing Hot Network ...
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Why is Area 51 showing the Stack Overflow logo on Site Stats?
We see site stats on the home page of beta sites. Below the site stats, we have two more options to show the stats in detail.
Area 51
Stack Exchange
Previously, the Area 51 showed a Area 51 logo ...
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Area51 visit/day and total users statistics are broken
Bi-weekly I help with writing down the Area51 statistics of 2 beta websites in this Meta Sustainability SE post and this Meta Martial Arts SE post. We do this so all site users can monitor growth of ...
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Adjust/don't show pro-tempore election notification if there is no election phase [closed]
Woodworking Stack Exchange just had its first pro-tempore election. Well, not really; there was no election phase since there was only one candidate for one seat. Therefore, the election ended as soon ...
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Are there any plans to graduate any beta sites soon?
It's been more than a year since a beta site was graduated – the latest being Bitcoin in October 2017. Since then, the SE team has been busy with the rolling out of responsive design themes which ...
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Why do some StackExchange sites have a nice logo and others a simple speech bubble with 2 letters?
From my Stack Exchange sites:
Nice logos
Simple boring logos
Why is that?
Not enough questions or people joined to the site
Nobody did design a cool logo
Other reason
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What are the requirements for a (beta) site logo?
Someone on Sustainable Living SE proposed to hold a 'new logo' contest so we can make the beta site a bit more distinct and recognizable. From this Meta post I understood that Stack Exchange sites can ...
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Allow sites in Beta to be chosen for the Today's Featured Site
As described in How is the featured site chosen?
- How is the featured site chosen?
- It is a random selection from the list of graduated sites.
Could we allow Beta sites to rotate as well ...
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Migrate good questions to sister site from failed site?
Five years ago we were making a lot of new sites. Some of them are not doing so well, and a few have been closed after going to beta. While I realize that closing beta sites is not aggressive as it ...
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Can't suggest an edit on a beta site in the iOS app when I have 5 or more suggested edits pending
It looks like the Stack Exchange iOS app has some built-in protection where you cannot suggest edits on a site where you already have 5 or more pending suggested edits. That makes sense, but for beta ...
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Closed questions and Area 51 site stats
Are closed questions counted in the unanswered questions stats in Area 51, or are they just left out of the stats completely?
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