Questions tagged [graduating-sites]
For questions about the process of site graduation, which is when a site moves from the beta stage (where a site's scope is defined and the user base is grown) to a full-blown member of the Stack Exchange network. For graduated sites themselves, use the tag [full-sites].
57
questions
409
votes
15
answers
19k
views
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 ...
- 6,195
239
votes
13
answers
5k
views
Feedback Requested: Design-Independent Graduation
Last month's announcement about our updated criteria for graduation and site closure sparked some solid examination into the intended nature of public beta and graduation.
One thing these discussions ...
- 6,195
218
votes
11
answers
27k
views
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 ...
- 13.8k
163
votes
2
answers
3k
views
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 ...
135
votes
1
answer
1k
views
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" ...
- 183k
105
votes
5
answers
5k
views
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 ...
- 6,195
104
votes
4
answers
3k
views
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 &...
- 109k
47
votes
2
answers
442
views
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 ...
- 109k
40
votes
2
answers
621
views
Can Beta sites slated for graduation get full-site abilities without site design upgrade?
I respect the discussion about how much work goes into making a Beta site into a full site, particularly from the design perspective.
From Robert Cartaino's answer:
Sending a site to the "...
- 109k
36
votes
1
answer
1k
views
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 ...
- 11.3k
31
votes
1
answer
697
views
Be clearer on what a beta site needs to graduate [duplicate]
The beta tab of an Area 51 proposal contains the criteria for considering a beta site healthy:
15 questions per day on average
90% answered
150 users with 200+ rep
10 users with 2,000+ rep
5 users ...
- 14.8k
30
votes
1
answer
413
views
Our site just graduated/launched/left beta! Do we need to do anything?
A bunch of sites on the network are graduating and losing the "beta" designation. This also enables more features like establishing migration paths and community ads. As a mod on a newly ...
- 773
29
votes
2
answers
480
views
How will graduation/election swag work with the changes to the "graduation" process?
Hooray, Design-Independent Graduation is happening! Sites that have been deserving of graduation all over SE are getting their elections and (hopefully eventually) getting the "Beta" label removed ...
- 109k
28
votes
2
answers
245
views
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 ...
- 4,511
28
votes
3
answers
543
views
Can we do something about the "graduated" label?
This question arose from discussion on Should we rename or remove the "beta" label?. Sites fall into three main categories:
Young betas that are still very much in beta. Consensus seems ...
- 183k
28
votes
1
answer
310
views
It's been a year: What's the takeaway from design-independent graduation?
So by now it has been a year since Design-Independent Graduation has been announced "new process"
In the "Feedback Requested" and the announcement of implementation Q&A there's been a lot of ...
- 4,261
24
votes
1
answer
636
views
What is the state of the new site designs promised after the redesign?
Last year, Jon Ericson wrote in an announcement about the completion of the responsive design rollout:
We'll continue fixing bugs and starting in 2019 we'll be working on designs for sites with the ...
- 7,290
21
votes
1
answer
274
views
When will a graduated site get a theme or custom branding?
I'm hesitating to ask this question because we have been asked for years to be patient. And I think we have been. But for the last one/two years I can no longer find any updates on that matter. It's ...
- 1,012
20
votes
3
answers
357
views
How should a newly graduated site decide when to request reputation threshold changes?
SE site graduation used to involve a bunch of things happening at the same time: removal of the "beta" label, a shiny new design, privilege thresholds increasing from beta levels, inaugural ...
- 33.5k
19
votes
1
answer
187
views
Why hasn't Christianity made it into the Data Explorer yet?
Christianity.SE officially graduated at the end of May. A question on our local meta asked when we could expect to see our site show up in the Data Explorer. The response was that it might lag a week ...
- 23.6k
17
votes
1
answer
229
views
How many beta sites can the Stack Exchange design team get graduated per year?
Related: Graduation, site closure, and a clearer outlook on the health of Stack Exchange sites
As of now I can see only Kurtis Beavers doing the design work, with Jin as Creative Director.
As ...
- 6,252
17
votes
1
answer
123
views
Does it makes sense to have the same graduation criteria for all beta sites?
Different SE sites cover a wide range of topics. And the thought process in generating a question is VERY different from one to another. In programming related sites, I can come up with many question ...
- 634
16
votes
0
answers
138
views
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 ...
- 11.3k
15
votes
3
answers
359
views
What happens to beta SE sites that do not have enough high rep users?
Take Web Apps, which will have its progress "evaluated" in a mere 5 days.
Reputation Users Notes
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Diamonds 9 with at least 102 ...
- 33.6k
15
votes
1
answer
363
views
Can a site "degraduate"?
I know that sites have two main stages once they leave Area 51: beta and graduated.
In order for a site to graduate from beta, it must meet a few requirements such as
A certain number of questions ...
- 2,205
13
votes
1
answer
141
views
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
- 303
13
votes
1
answer
192
views
Change of rep requirements after beta: should post-beta rep be listed on the privilege page(s)?
I think it would be nice to see if you actually will retain a privilege (at current rep) after beta.
- 849
12
votes
1
answer
274
views
Is there any way to request official feedback on what to do in order to graduate? [duplicate]
Let's say there's a site that I'd like to see graduate into a full SE site (I'm not going to mention Code Golf here). Now, I'm aware that the answer to "when will we graduate" is "when you're ready."
...
- 45.5k
12
votes
1
answer
114
views
Why there are no non-English sites in the footer?
According to Oded's answer:
Part of graduation is getting a place in the footer.
Graduated sites should be presented in the footer. But I can't find there sites like Stack Overflow in Russian, ...
- 69.6k
11
votes
3
answers
662
views
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 ...
- 2,084
11
votes
1
answer
164
views
Are graduating sites considered launched?
When designing community ads, I've generally gone to look at the Area 51 Launched Page to see where I could put ads (and frown when the best sites were still in beta). I've usually expected that all ...
- 2,609
11
votes
0
answers
61
views
How to determine if a beta site is ready to support a post-graduation election?
After a site graduates, we proceed to have moderator elections. The graduation of Mechanics.SE was delayed for around 9 months because it was unable to "support an election":
But I don't ...
- 22.5k
10
votes
0
answers
102
views
Where can I find a full list of ready-to-graduate sites that don't have their own design yet? [duplicate]
A number of sites have grown large enough and of high enough quality to warrant a full graduation, but due to bottleneck issues haven't gotten the shiny new coat of a fully fledged site yet. Where can ...
8
votes
2
answers
239
views
How are the icons for each Stack Exchange community chosen?
I noticed some communities have their own icon (logo) while other just have a generic one with the first letter of the community.
Here's an example :
Coffee and 3D Printing communities have a ...
- 183
8
votes
1
answer
128
views
Queries on "Answer Ratio" towards the site graduation
Let, "Answer Ratio" = AR
Answers are deleted due to lack of sources & low quality. Are those counted in the AR, which has to be minimum 2.5 as per the area 51?
Do votes to existing answers matter,...
- 1,157
8
votes
0
answers
59
views
Remove/Re-think "How to Ask Questions in Private Beta" page on communities no longer in beta [duplicate]
Please review the help page at /help/how-to-ask-beta for all communities that are no longer in beta status. This will lead to reader confusion. I think the right panel link (which is available from /...
- 3,829
7
votes
1
answer
113
views
Which sites have graduated?
When a beta site is shown to have a strong, healthy community, it can be selected for site graduation.
Most graduated sites can be identified by their unique design and site logo. However, this is ...
- 15.1k
7
votes
0
answers
39
views
Redundant links in [site]/help/asking [duplicate]
I haven't checked on every graduated site but both Super User and Stack Overflow have a redundant link in the site "Asking" help centre page ([site]/help/asking):
On both these sites there ...
- 9,345
6
votes
2
answers
235
views
What are the design elements that could be changed upon graduation of a site? [duplicate]
On the Judaism SE site, we're getting somewhat close to graduation. Talk about our design post-graduation has recently come up where community members were asked to provide some design ideas that Jin ...
- 850
6
votes
1
answer
99
views
What are the launching criteria for a new SE website?
So, I was browsing Stack Overflow's meta website and I found this:
What is Stack Overflow's goal?
I did read the answers and the first one caught my eye:
SO no longer meets the standards that SE ...
user395175
5
votes
1
answer
100
views
Area 51 reps and badge counts are still being updated for sites that graduated in 2019 or 2021
I have just noticed that the reputation statistics and the badge counts for users of sites that graduated in 2019 or December 2021 are still being updated, even though the other data are frozen. My ...
- 2,687
5
votes
0
answers
42
views
Add launch date to Area 51 proposal page
Currently, the launch date of a site is only shown as a relative timestamp. That's fine if this happened recently, but for example Bitcoin's page says the site was launched "1 year ago". That's rather ...
GlorfindelMod
- 253k
4
votes
2
answers
202
views
Why is German Language and Usage still in beta?
According to this question, our site has the three factors mentioned there. Here is its status on area51:
The only problem is the number of questions per day which I believe is caused by remaining a ...
- 593
4
votes
1
answer
144
views
What is a "Gold" site?
I thought there were 3 states of an SE site: Private Beta, Public Beta, and Full-blown SE site. Then I stumbled across this question and this question, both of which indicate a state between(?) ...
- 9,111
3
votes
1
answer
126
views
Is there a way to know the new launched sites over the years?
Stack Exchange now has more than 170 sites. Is there a way to know when those sites were launched?
I know I can download all dumps and figure it out, but is there any cheaper way to do so?
- 113
3
votes
1
answer
107
views
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&...
- 279
3
votes
0
answers
55
views
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 ...
- 36.2k
3
votes
0
answers
62
views
How to best leverage the Community Ads feature for maximum contribution?
The beta community that I moderate may be up for maturation in 2022 -- which would allow for "Community Ads".
I am very excited to gain this feature because it represents a real opportunity ...
- 3,829
3
votes
0
answers
89
views
Will ES.SO graduate soon? [closed]
Today, Leap Day, marks the 90th day ES.SO has been in beta. It already meets the threshold of 10qpd (questions per day). Should it be graduated?
- 571
3
votes
0
answers
82
views
When is the exact point of a website graduation in the new system?
I haven’t seen a website graduate in the “old system” so I don’t know how it really worked before, but I’m curious how it works now.
I don’t know when is the exact point when a website is considered ...
- 342