I’m not leaving, just so you know.

I may not be ELL’s best moderator, but I’m planning on sticking around to do what I can.

Feel free to ping me in chat if you need anything.

@AIQ It's always been something that happens when SE has the resources to do it. I don't think the community can really make it happen. You can always post on the per-site meta and ask SE for a design, though.

Yeah, they used to have a lot of different things bundled together which they called "graduation". These days, I think the "graduation" label might be less appropriate.

Removing the "beta" label makes sense, since the sites are nothing like the original idea behind SE beta sites.

Years ago, some of us thought our sites would be in beta literally forever – no design, no change in reputation requirements, no elections, nothing. The heat death of the universe would come around and we'd still be sitting there on meta wondering when we'd get a palette swap.

But then SE turned that around and gave us designs and elections and stuff. It was nice.

Of course, then they decided having actual full designs for each site was a mistake, so now they have the same design everywhere with only small per-site changes. That's sad because a lot of the designs suffered a lot for it, but it also means making new designs is a much lower cost proposition for SE these days, since there isn't actually much to design.

So that's kind of a bummer, but it means someone at SE might be able to make a design for your site (which site?) relatively quickly when they decide they have time.

EL&U had a magnificent design, but the re-design didn't treat it well.

I feel like ELL's design worked out a lot better with the re-design.

Ah, I see.