Questions tagged [beta-sites]
For posts that are related to those Stack Exchange sites which are currently in beta phase.
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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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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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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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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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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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Is there a formal process for submitting Community Ads?
I like community-ads. They have the word community in them, and I find it's a great way of making the "bigger brother" graduated sites give some visibility to beta sites.
On graduated sites, ...
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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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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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Hide the Analytical badge for new sites
The Aviation site just launched, into private beta. I was looking through the list of badges, and found a trusty old pal:
The only thing is, this will never be awarded on a new site; can we get rid ...
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Beta Newsletters Don't Match the Beta Theme
The newsletters for beta sites don't match the main theme of the beta sites. For example, compare the beta site theme and the beta site newsletter.
Look at those curves...
It's all blocky.....
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Proposal for displaying days in beta stat in site stats
Could we also see days in beta in the Site Stats sidebar for every beta site?
Please some StackExchange people respond in some way for this request.
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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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"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 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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Announce new sites when they reach beta and when they finally get released
When a new site gets into beta (when moderators are chosen) and when the site lauches officially with its own skin (alpha?), please announce it in the side below hot network questions as SE news or ...
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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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Make extra delete votes affected by beta privilege scaling
Currently, you gain the privilege to delete questions on beta sites at 2000 reputation, starting out with 5 delete votes per day.
You gain 1 additional delete vote for every 1.000 reputation past ...
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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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Code blockquotes on beta sites add extra spacing to bottom
Currently, when you try to format blocks of code inside a blockquote, you get extra spacing at the bottom of the blockquote. Here are a couple of examples:
While this isn't a huge deal, it still ...
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The two sides of a side-by-side markdown diff are overlapping each other
Time for a super-ultra-trivial bug: if you look at diff #7 for this post on meta.Anime.SE, you see this (on Chrome 34 / Windows 7):
The deleted whitespace on the left side of the diff is slightly ...
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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 are some privilege rep requirements scaled differently for beta sites?
This MSE question clearly shows that reputation requirements for privileges are scaled down for sites in beta. This makes sense, as no one has had the opportunity to attain a high reputation count ...
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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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The checkmark isn't properly aligned with vote counts in the new beta sites
Oh, déjà vu?
The problem appears on the new beta theme too. Just noticed while cutting an image.
And, just by the way: the check mark in the accepted state is aligned properly. Which makes the ...
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Can we get notifications for upcoming SE beta site deletions?
If a beta Stack Exchange site is about to get deleted, will users be given any advance notice, like an e-mail? Such notice would allow users to save some of the better posts before they get deleted.
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UsersHistory Table on SEDE
Stack Exchange Data Explorer is awesome!
It's an invaluable tool to analyze a site's activity, monitor unanswered questions and answering time, or just to fetch a dataset for further analysis of ...
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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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Can we nuke a Beta and start again?
Disclaimer
The following case-study is just my opinion and not something the Beta site in question has decided upon. I want to know whether such course of action is in theory possible before ...
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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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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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New theme has odd edit box alignment
At first glance it looks like the textarea should be a bit wider:
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Private Beta is accessible without an account
Go to a private beta site, such as Spanish.SO. You need an account on SE to get in.
Now, click on the StackExchange logo in the top left corner and press either "Stack Overflow en Español" or "...
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How does the new beta/graduation philosophy apply to spinoff sites?
The recent changes formally acknowledging long beta periods seem like a huge improvement: our longstanding small but awesome beta sites can breathe easier.
I'm wondering about one specific case: ...
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Review audits on a beta site
I saw this post earlier, saying that there were only review audits on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Super User, Programmers, Ask Ubuntu, and Mathematics.
However, I got a review audit on a beta site ...
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Why is more rep needed to create tag synonyms than to access 10k mod tools, on private beta sites?
This doesn't really make any sense:
1,250 rep is needed to create tag synonyms, but only 1,000 rep is needed to access the 10k tools on private beta sites.
On public beta sites, as @Yannis pointed ...
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Ugly popups on beta sites
I was using a beta site and I noticed how ugly the popup notices are on there. Unlike the notices on non-beta sites, I feel like I'm stuck 5-10 years ago in windows XP or earlier. Why don't these look ...
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Broken link to area51 page
The sidebar on the right at https://rus.stackexchange.com/ links to an Area51 page at http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/lookup/rus.stackexchange.com.
Regrettably, that page returns an Error ...
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Logging-in to beta sites doesn't work when not logged in to the Area 51
At the first time I had massive problems logging-in to one of sites in beta stage (freelancing.stackexchange.com to be more specific, but it's the same for others, too) - the link (still) doesn't work ...
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Some beta site favicons are capitalized differently in different places
If you take a look at this question, you will see that the favicon for Linguistics.SE sometimes reads "LNG", and at other times reads "Lng". The same is true for at least the following sites:
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Add Site Icon in Beta-Website Banner
(First, I know and haven't overlooked that this proposal will involve work from the good folks at SE.)
Problems:
As much as I realize there's Beta sites spawning in all directions, the blue beta ...
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Why is the "protect questions" privilege given at 3,500 instead of 3,000 in beta sites?
In Beta Sites, the top privileges go like this:
5,000 access to site analytics
4,000 trusted user
3,500 *protect questions
2,000 access to moderator tools
1,500 approve tag wiki edits
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"Associated reputation" displayed for Code Review
I was wondering if it made sense to declare Stack Overflow a sort of "associated website" of Code Review, which would allow users of that site to inspect a contributor's profile state on SO. The ...
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