If I can dig up the links about this later I'll do so. But basically, "Beta" no longer means anything like "2-years probation". It just means the stack isn't one of the hugely trafficked ones yet.
They've been debating changing the name of the status to reflect that.
That being said, I do still think we have hope of progressing out of what they are currently calling "beta". IIRC, we'd need to be consistently pulling in more than 10 questions a day, plus a lot of other traffic-related metrics. We had a good spurt lately and have been right around that level, but its just a spurt.
But as long as the stack is "healthy", its in no danger of being closed down.
From what I've seen in our stats (that as a mod I have access to), we aren't really doing unprecedented numbers, and its not a noticeable steady long-term up trend either (except in traffic, which does seem to trend up long-term) So this may well be our level. However, whenever we have good months I get excited, because the good months get us sooooo close to the promised land.
