Is Area 51 dying? Does it deserve it?

C'mon, there were NOT 17 sites that launched in 2008! Your graph is WRONG, as you are counting the earliest post: on Software Engineering, the earliest post is dated Aug 1 '08 (as it was migrated from Stack Overflow), while the site was actually created Sep 1 '10, according to Community's age (which is the same as the site age).

A correct graph (that's also a cool bar graph) would be:

Note:

• Area51 launched halfway through 2010
• This graph includes sites that did not go through Area 51, such as Ask Patents
• This graph (now) excludes all metas, including this site.
• This graph excludes failed betas (which are deleted from SEDE)
• We're only halfway through 2017 now, when I made this graph

My thoughts: Area 51 does not need to crank out 25 sites a year to work, so it's not really fair to compare it to Stack Overflow. Also, I'm still waiting for the "next gen" they're supposed to be working on (instead of majorly improving the existing code).

Query Code:

declare  db_c cursor for select [name] 
       from sys.databases 
       where database_id > 5 -- skip master, temp, model, msdb, Data.SE

declare @db_c_name sysname   -- holds name of db after fetch
declare @sql nvarchar(max) -- holds build up sql string

-- result table
create table #all (
    number int, site nvarchar(250), id int   
);

open db_c
fetch next from db_c into @db_c_name
while(@@FETCH_STATUS = 0)
begin
    set @sql = N'use '+ QUOTENAME(@db_c_name) +';
    insert into #all
    select
    year(creationdate),
    '''+ 
       QUOTENAME(@db_c_name) +
    '''
    , id + 2
    from users where id=-1
       ';
    exec (@sql)
   fetch next from db_c into @db_c_name
end;
close db_c;
deallocate db_c;

select number, site, ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY(number) order by number)  from #all where site not like '%meta%'