Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status
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Good news for whoever regularly visits Stack Exchange! A whole lot of sub-sites have been 7 years or more in beta, so they finally concluded that those had enough trials:
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 Parenting and Homebrewing moderators can finally sleep at night.
Oh, and I guess the Windows Phone team is also going to be less concerned, no matter if the platform is canceled.
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@JBert said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
The Parenting and Homebrewing moderators can finally sleep at night.
Well.... the Homebrewing moderators at any rate.
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@powerlord After 7 years (or more), I hope that the original parenting moderators can also get some sleep.
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Well, Parenting does require a certain amount of Homebrewing.
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@El_Heffe said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
Well, Parenting does require a certain amount of Homebrewing.
Well, no, it might be "distant hotel" brew. Or "back seat of a 57 Desoto" brew.(1) Or, indeed, any one of a thousand and one (probably more) other ways of doing the deed while not at home.(3)
(1) I can tell you one thing about having sex in a car.(2) If it wasn't for the romantic aspect, we would reject it as even more deeply undignified than sex normally is.
(2) That's the voice of experience speaking, if you don't mind, not a study in theoretical copulation.
(3) Like the over-enthusiastic young couple I saw one night on the train who got up together and disappeared, together, into the toilet. People will copulate in the damnedest places.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
@El_Heffe said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
I think you misunderstood.
Being a parent requires a certain amount of drinking to get through the day.
Duct tape helps, also.
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@remi said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
@powerlord After 7 years (or more), I hope that the original parenting moderators can also get some sleep.
Assuming they didn't become members of parenthood again.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
(1) I can tell you one thing about having sex in a car.
I had sex in the cab of an 18-wheeler semi. Does that count?
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@El_Heffe said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
@El_Heffe said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
I think you misunderstood.
Being a parent requires a certain amount of drinking to get through the day.
Duct tape helps, also.
Doesn't need to be home-brewed hooch, though.
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@error said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
(1) I can tell you one thing about having sex in a car.
I had sex in the cab of an 18-wheeler semi. Does that count?
Probably. Maybe. Depends on whether it was one of the really big ones with a mini-bedroom in the back of the cab.
This also made me think of Starrigger.(1) (The protagonist ends up at more than one point in the series having sex in the back of the cab while an AI (copied from his deceased father) is driving the truck.)
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
having sex in the back of the cab while an AI ... is driving the truck.
Isn't that the purpose of fully self-driving vehicles?
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@HardwareGeek well, looking how things go right now, I'm pretty sure the new goal is to make drivers much more focused on driving by making the car do unexpected things with super high frequency.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
having sex in a car.
I've occasionally wondered why that's so romanticized.
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
a study in theoretical copulation.
That's all I have! Don't take this away from me!
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
People will copulate in the damnedest places.
I've had the notion that I should travel more...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
having sex in a car.
I've occasionally wondered why that's so romanticized.
Having done it, I have to say that I wonder the same thing. But it seemed like the right thing to do at that moment.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
(1) I can tell you one thing about having sex in a car.(2) If it wasn't for the romantic aspect, we would reject it as even more deeply undignified than sex normally is.
(2) That's the voice of experience speaking, if you don't mind, not a study in theoretical copulation.extra points for getting the car stuck in the woods first!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
having sex in a car.
I've occasionally wondered why that's so romanticized.
I blame pop music.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
other ways of doing the deed while not at home.
I for one will not take space seriously until there is authentic space porn. I also suspect that after the initial shock of meeting intelligent alien life our second thought will be : can I shag it?
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@DogsB said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
can I shag it
preferably in the backseat of a space ship
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@error said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
(1) I can tell you one thing about having sex in a car.
I had sex in the cab of an 18-wheeler semi. Does that count?
If you're referring to a Lot Lizard, no, it doesn't. Well, it depends.
'dI didn't realize the term was widely known.
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@Luhmann said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
(1) I can tell you one thing about having sex in a car.(2) If it wasn't for the romantic aspect, we would reject it as even more deeply undignified than sex normally is.
(2) That's the voice of experience speaking, if you don't mind, not a study in theoretical copulation.extra points for getting the car stuck in the woods first!
Do I get extra points for the car being parked in an ordinary residential street outside the house where my girlfriend was living?
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@Steve_The_Cynic
During day time?
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@Luhmann And was it her father's car?
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@jinpa said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
If you're referring to a Lot Lizard, no, it doesn't. Well, it depends.
I wouldn't consider myself a lot lizard.
Filed under: Wait, you guys are getting paid?
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@Luhmann said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
@Steve_The_Cynic
During day time?About 10pm in winter, so no.
@JBert said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
@Luhmann And was it her father's car?
Technically my father's car, but in practice he always drove the other one, so it might as well have been my own.
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@levicki said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
@error said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
I had sex in the cab of an 18-wheeler semi. Does that count?
Well I think it depends on which side of the penis you were.
I'm not much for pegging or
, so it was just my 
and the truck driver's 
.
Filed under: Now I'm hungry.
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At the risk of re-railing the thread:
I'm active, occasionally, on Board & Card Games Stack Exchange. It's the oldest one on that list. I guess it's vaguely nice to have Beta go away, but from the comments on the OP, it looks like it's just going to be beta-by-another-name. No custom design, no change to voting requirements, nothing.
It can't possibly be all that expensive to get a unique design for a particular site - there are only about a dozen graphical elements that need to be updated. Treating the smaller sites like second-class citizens just feels dumb.
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@PotatoEngineer said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
Treating the smaller sites like second-class citizens just feels dumb.
The feeling of superiority over the poor souls looking for help on the site is the goal of SO for the power users and admins, so ... works as intended?
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@PotatoEngineer said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
At the risk of re-railing the thread:
Why would you want to do that?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
having sex in a car.
I've occasionally wondered why that's so romanticized.
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@loopback0 Wasn’t that the group you posted doing the Ryan-Air thing? I’m still laughing about that.
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@topspin said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
@loopback0 Wasn’t that the group you posted doing the Ryan-Air thing? I’m still laughing about that.
Aye. They have a few good songs.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Stack Exchange cleans up 7+ year long beta status:
having sex in a car.
I've occasionally wondered why that's so romanticized.
Having done it, I have to say that I wonder the same thing. But it seemed like the right thing to do at that moment.
Having done it as well, as well as some other interesting places, it has more to do with lack of better options at the time.
