Heyo, I just wanted to mention that the Library beta site got shut down when it was in the same # of questions/day territory that we are in. They were also receiving well over 1,000 visits per day too when it happened. Leading me to believe that it was # of questions/day that kiboshed it.
Their other stats were all good. Just 1.1 - 1.4 average questions/day.
@CanadianGirlScout Thanks for raising that here. My understanding is that we are not in danger as long as current policies remain in place. Most of our stats are solid - it is just questions per day that holds us back.
Q&A site for librarians and library professionals.
Closed after 380 days in beta.
As you can see above [library.se] was at about half our question rate, way down on avid users, and way down on visits per day. These stats don't quite match yours. I suspect that it was the 0 users with 200+ rep that would have killed it the most.
Those stats totally don't jive with what I remember seeing on the site. The user stats are particularly strange, since their mods alone should be showing on there somewhere, but aren't. Site visits were very good when I started going there. They had a number of uber-heavy-handed mods or "experts" though that I found distasteful. So that is why I turned off. Maybe they chased away other people too...
All the user rep for that site disappeared when the site was shut down, so I guess that's why it shows as 0 avid users. If you want you can look in the data dump and see that there are many users with hundreds and thousands of rep.
Anyway that site was closed a couple years ago now, and the policy about site closure seems to have changed a bit, see
It's well worth reading Graduation, site closure, and a clearer outlook on the health of SE sites but if you haven't got time:
The TL;DR:
When a site starts to consistently receive 10 questions/day, we’ll consider it for graduation.
If a public beta site does not produce consistentl...
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 closed down. Any existing Q&A will be archived and made available for download, but the site...
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 closed down. Any existing Q&A will be archived and made available for download, but the site...
