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31 questions linked to/from Design-Independent Graduation is on for early September!
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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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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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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 ...
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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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Can we have a guaranteed pipeline for responses from Stack Exchange?
I think we should have some mechanism that automatically flags certain meta posts (both child metas and here) for Stack Exchange staff attention when they get beyond a certain point. The thresholds ...
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Shutting down recurring community self-evaluations
We've been talking a lot about the efficacy of community self-evaluations lately, both internally on the Community Team and out in the open on meta. Lots of ideas were tossed around, but the ...
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Let's experiment with town-hall-style chat events
When we first launched meta, something pretty amazing happened—we came together and defined what we feel is one of the most transparent and inclusive ways that a company can communicate with the ...
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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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Did all sites just graduate?
Seems like all beta sites just lost the "Beta" status and have increased privilege requirements.
I assume this is a bug, what happened here? Did a unicorn ate the wires again?
Even though we at Code ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Why is there only one person working on site designs?
Directly related to Design-Independent Graduation is on for early September!
So I ask
Why is there only one person working on site designs?
in response to
We have one designer working on site ...
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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 "...
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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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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 ...
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