It's no surprise to me that this Stack Exchange website was not chosen to graduated from beta, even though the requirements to do so are very low. This website has been falling into dereliction over the past several years.

Some ideas on why this website is failing:

• What is the status of Medical Sciences (Dec '20)?
• Change in my moderation practices

Carey Gregory's answer is blaming COVID for causing the loss of a number of high-rep users in his answer, but the retention of experts has always been an issue, and I'd argue that COVID should instead have help revive this website due to the high interest of the public in the many COVID-related medical questions.

Even the two moderators themselves barely write any questions or answers on this website: over the past 2 years, the first one has posted ~20 answers and 0 questions, and the second one hasn't posted any answers or questions.

It's no surprise to me that this Stack Exchange website was not chosen to graduated from beta, even though the requirements to do so are very low. This website has been falling into dereliction over the past several years.

Some ideas on why this website is failing:

• What is the status of Medical Sciences (Dec '20)?
• Change in my moderation practices

Carey Gregory's answer is blaming COVID for causing the loss of a number of high-rep users in his answer, but the retention of experts has always been an issue, and I'd argue that COVID should instead have helped revive this website due to the high interest of the public in the many COVID-related medical questions.

Even the two moderators themselves barely write any questions or answers on this website: over the past 2 years, the first one has posted ~20 answers and 0 questions, and the second one hasn't posted any answers or questions. The third moderator, who resigned a few weeks ago, hadn't posted any answers or questions for the past 5 years.

It's no surprise to me that this Stack Exchange website was not chosen to graduated from beta, even though the requirements to do so are very low. This website has been falling into dereliction over the past several years.

Some ideas on why this website is failing:

• What is the status of Medical Sciences (Dec '20)?
• Change in my moderation practices

Carey Gregory's answer is blaming COVID for causing the loss of a number of high-rep users in his answer, but the retention of experts has always been an issue, and I'd argue that COVID should instead have help revive this website due to the high interest of the public in the many COVID-related medical questions.

It's no surprise to me that this Stack Exchange website was not chosen to graduated from beta, even though the requirements to do so are very low. This website has been falling into dereliction over the past several years.

Some ideas on why this website is failing:

• What is the status of Medical Sciences (Dec '20)?
• Change in my moderation practices

Carey Gregory's answer is blaming COVID for causing the loss of a number of high-rep users in his answer, but the retention of experts has always been an issue, and I'd argue that COVID should instead have help revive this website due to the high interest of the public in the many COVID-related medical questions.

Even the two moderators themselves barely write any questions or answers on this website: over the past 2 years, the first one has posted ~20 answers and 0 questions, and the second one hasn't posted any answers or questions.