Questions tagged [beta-sites]
For posts that are related to those Stack Exchange sites which are currently in beta phase.
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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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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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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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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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Let's break up with "Graduation" and remove a bunch of "Beta" labels
Over two years ago now, we made a big shift in how we handle "graduation" - nearly severing the connection between "graduation" and site design. We also talked about removing the &...
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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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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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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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Let's set better expectations for how long beta lasts
Back when the idea of beta sites was young, the expectation was that beta was a fairly quick process. Even now, Area 51 sets the expectation that 90 days is a good "start thinking about graduation" ...
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What is "Ask Patents" and why is it secret?
Looks like our SE overlords are about to launch a new Stack Exchange site - Ask Patents. I've been hinted at its existence by a user who committed to the (now closed) Software Law proposal on Area 51.
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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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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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Beta sites should be in the Data Explorer
The Stack Exchange Data Explorer is a very nice and useful tool, but it has one very large drawback: Beta sites are not included at all.
Excluding beta sites probably made a lot of sense when the ...
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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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How do we get Community Promotion Ads on beta sites?
All the launched sites get Community Promotion Ads meta posts posted every year by a SE mod.
Previously, I thought that beta sites simply weren't allowed them. However, Anime & Manga is still in ...
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Strategies for handling beta community quality evaluations
Periodically, the Community Team will evaluate the quality of a beta site. In addition to examining general site traffic stats and Meta activity, we check the content quality by selecting 10 random ...
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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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When do beta sites get a custom look? [duplicate]
I'm asking this because the graphic design site has been in public beta for 838 days and is still using the default beta-site theme which seems quite inappropriate for a site full of graphical ...
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Site Launched, who is next? [closed]
Movies and TV is now a Full Fledged Site! With a fancy new design! Congratulations to them.
Now we all want to know what the order of the remaining sites is...right? Who's next to get their fancy ...
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Is it appropriate to ask what a public beta sites needs to graduate?
I came across this comment by Tim Post today in a separate question:
The only thing holding [Code Review] back from graduating is the lack of high rep users - there just aren't enough 1k+, 3k+ ...
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Missing whitespace in beta site statistics box [duplicate]
At least for successful beta sites, the new design seems to result in a lack of whitespace between the numbers and what the numbers represent.
Because a picture is worth a thousand words, even though ...
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How do I earn the Old Hat hat?
The description for the Old Hat says:
have a user account created in the first month of the site's existence
How is "existence" defined? Private beta, public beta, non-beta, or something else?
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Are Stack Exchange 2.0 sites remaining in beta for too long?
One of the interesting things about Google is that they tend to have products in beta for a very long period of time, despite the fact that they for all purposes ceased to be a beta product some time ...
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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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Where have the site self-evaluations gone?
Many beta sites have gone more than 3 months without a self-evaluation.
Italian Language: February
Computer Science: February; next one scheduled for Aug 9
Reverse Engineering: February
Cryptography: ...
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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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Earth Science SE and Spanish SE have the same icon [duplicate]
The beta sites Earth Science and Spanish have the same icon.
Icon of Earth Science:
Icon of Spanish:
They both have "ES" in a blue speech balloon.
Can they please have different icons?
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Allow suggested edits on beta site metas
There is a long standing ban on allowing suggested edits on per-site meta:
Why can't I suggest edits on SE meta sites?
I would like this relaxed on beta sites to allow broader participation to ...
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Why does the logo not show up when signing up for a site and confirming the account? [closed]
I was signing up for Software Recommendations and realized that a unicorn stole their logo! We need to get it back! Really, the logo is missing when you sign up on SR, and I don't know if this is a ...
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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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When do we merge the content of a closed beta site with an existing site?
I was searching for closed beta sites and I found them.
These are the beta sites that were closed and their data dump of questions is downloadable on Area 51
Open Science
Machine Learning
Game Theory
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How can we change the favicon of SE site in Beta?
I am currently associated with a SE site hinduism.stackexchange.com. This SE site is currently in Beta and I found that the favicon for the site is showing 'Hi', i.e., the first two letters from the ...
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How to determine the close date of a closed beta site?
I am calculating the differences between graduated betas v.s. discontinued betas for an academic paper. I previously asked a question regarding how to calculate the number of days in a beta site and ...
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When will other sites follow Stack Overflow Portuguese
The first site using internationalization, Stack Overflow Portuguese, is now online for over 7 months.
What are the plans for other sites like this waiting to be launched at Area51? Will this be ...
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Can we hide the visitor stats until they're fixed?
As detailed in this question there is currently a network-wide issue impacting the visitor, views and visits statistics resulting mostly in zero amounts. Since this doesn't seem to have a quick fix—it'...
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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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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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Beta favicons lost their letters in profile
I've been participating in SE for a while -- particularly in beta sites. I have an account on three and I checked my account page today. I did a double take upon seeing no distinguishing white letter ...
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Where is the list of closed beta sites?
When I know the name of the site that was closed during public beta, I can search for that site in Area51 search.
However, is there any place where I can find the list of all closed public betas? I'm ...
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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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Why is the changing-link-color scheme so subtle for beta sites?
If you view this answer and hover your cursor over the text, you can see each link clearly because it changes color dramatically, (assuming your device has a hover method and the color contrast is ...
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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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Is a StackExchange question only valid if it it's your own problem you're describing? If not, does this still apply in beta?
Most (if not all) SE sites have something in their help centre along these lines:
You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face.
My question is: Is the ...
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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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The vote counts delimiter is mis-aligned in the new beta theme
Seems that new design for beta sites got this problem, but other way around.
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Does the community user auto-approve some suggested edits on beta sites?
I noticed a lot of suggested edits on mechanics getting approved by the community like this example:
https://mechanics.stackexchange.com/suggested-edits/79
I found this question that points out that ...
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What is the usual process for closure of a site in public beta?
Even though data dumps of closed sites are available for download, it might be useful to know a week or month in advance that a public beta site is scheduled for closure.
What is the usual procedure ...
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Notify user before closing a public beta site
It's awesome that we can propose new sites that have the chance to become fully mature stackexchange sites like SO!
Any site has that potential, given enough enthusiast, involvement from the site's ...
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Members discussing other members
I would like to make a suggestion. I suggest that SE considers
adopting a policy of Not discussing members publicly on the site. To
me it is totally at odds with the sites aim of being Q&A and not ...
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Would it be possible to setup SE sites specifically designed for children, what do you think?
Yesterday my daughter watched me acting on my favorite SE site. She essentially said:
"Hey, that's cool. Can you recommend me a me a site there, where I could go to with my bunch of questions I ...
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