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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Badge count font size is way too small on beta sites
Why are the numbers so much smaller than the "awarded" text? It looks quite awkward.
(The number is 10px, and "awarded" is 13px.)
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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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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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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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How exactly are Area 51 beta stats calculated?
How, exactly, are all the Area 51 beta stats calculated?
For example:
This shows an answer ratio of 2.0. Yet, unless my query is broken, I couldn't get that number (even with today's freshly ...
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What does the "B" in the Web Applications beta logo stand for? [closed]
Is it "B" as in "Beta"?
(Yes, I get know that it's not the permanent logo - I'm just curious why it was chosen as the temp one.)
I didn't commit, so if this is explained somewhere on the WebApps ...
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How were the guidelines for a healthy site determined?
When visiting analytics for beta sites, one can view different guidelines on how each proposal is doing based on the following "healthy" guidelines:
15 questions asked per day
90% of questions ...
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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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Why is the order of topics in help center not always the same? [duplicate]
Almost all sites' Help Center pages follow this order in their Asking section:
What topics can I ask about here?
What types of questions should I avoid asking? .... etc.
But I found that some sites ...
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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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Area 51 Questions per day - running out of questions on the topic?
I have been looking over some Area 51 proposals that are currently in beta. Most proposals have a good overall score on the 'statistics', except for Questions per day.
I have read the guidelines that ...
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Favicons in the stats widget on beta sites don't use HTTPS
The favicons for Area 51 and Stack Exchange that are shown on sites marked "beta" in the Site Stats widget are using http:// URLs for favicons when visiting the sites over HTTPS.
Mixed ...
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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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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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Keeping dead beta sites as "archive sites"
This is not a duplicate of Keeping closed sites in suspended animation: a modest proposal because the main point of that is to allow for a process in Area 51 to "reopen" a closed site, while this one ...
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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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Is it appropriate to advertise a pre-beta site to a beta or post beta site?
There are lots of times in english.SE that a question turns out to be language universal and not really specific to English. And language specific questions are not part of the linguistics.SE charter. ...
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 can be done to promote beta sites?
One of the problems that affect the users of beta sites is that they don't get enough views for their questions. So they post off topic questions on reputed SE sites.
Usually, when I post a question ...
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Allow suggesting edits in the Close Votes review queue on beta sites
On Beta sites, you get the Close/Reopen privilege at 500 reputation, before the Edit privilege (1000 reputation). This means that the Edit button, which is normally visible in the Close Votes review ...
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Do not expire single use tags on Beta sites
Tags that have exactly one question are automatically pruned after six months, leaving their questions untagged, and their wikis orphaned. This is problematic on Beta sites, where it's not uncommon ...
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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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"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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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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Where do our SE site promo ads go?
I'm a mod on Chess.SE beta, and we've come up with a couple ads for our site. Not knowing the ins and outs of site promotion, I asked what we would do with our ads. Another mod pro tem answered me ...
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Answer ratio trend stats for mods
Since the answer ratio (average number of answers per question) is one of the five health parameters mentioned in Area51 for beta sites, it would be great to have a historical trend graph for this ...
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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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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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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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In beta sites, link to Site Stats on Stack Exchange leads just to list of sites
Each beta site has such box in the right sidebar of the homepage:
Expected behavior when clicking "stack exchange" is the list of sites displayed and auto scrolled to the relevant site, or ...
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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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Why is more reputation required to edit on beta sites than to vote to close?
On graduated sites with designs, the ability to bindingly edit posts is given to users at 2,000 rep, and the ability to vote to close and reopen posts is given at 3,000 rep. However, on beta and ...
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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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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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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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Where do we report issues on a new beta site without moderators?
I've been fairly active in the English Language Learners Stack Exchange, which recently went to beta.
Earlier this week, my reputation took a hit when some serial upvoting was reversed (which is ...
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