It's a big day, and this was announced a bit earlier. It's taken a bit longer than intended to get the switches rolling (in part because some fellow whose name happens to match the author of this post got wrapped up in too many election snoobles), but we've thrown up all the switches that occur for design independent graduation.
Graduation works in two phases, as basically explained in the previous announcement. To expand what's happening today.
- You will soon have an election for community-voted moderators - yours is scheduled to begin on July 18th, which is in two weeks.
- You will no longer see the "beta" label attached to your site's name. This is already active.
- You will become eligible for question migration paths with the rest of the network. This is already active.
- You will soon be able to select your own community ads. My plan is to get these up today, along with a few others across the network alongside SO's halfway-through-the-year reset, but if not today, it'll be tomorrow. And please do not hesitate to badger me if it takes longer.
- The site will still receive a full design from one of our designers, which will be packaged with an increase in the amount of reputation needed to access each privilege.
This site has reached this point because of your generous contributions. Together, you've created a valuable resource that helps people. Congratulations on all you've accomplished.
