When a sandbox reaches 100 answers or more, it should be retired. There will always be two featured sandboxes at a time: one retiring sandbox (the previous sandbox) and the current sandbox.

The sandbox tag is currently used both for sandboxes themselves (there is currently only one Sandbox, but this has not always been the case), and for meta-discussion about the sandboxing process.

May 29, 2017 · When the Sandbox reaches 2000 posts, we lock it and allow active challenges there to be transferred across to... a new Sandbox! I'm sure that the Sandbox would be happy to retire from …

To add an inline tag to a proposal, use shortcut link syntax with a prefix: [tag:king-of-the-hill]. To search for posts with a certain tag, include the name in quotes: "king-of-the-hill".

The Sandbox currently says: When you think your challenge is ready for the public, go ahead and post it, and replace the post here with a link to the challenge and delete the sandbox post.

If you look in the sandbox edit history there seems to be a long chain of edits where the community moderator removes the featured tag, and a trusted moderator replaces it.

When you post your question on the main site, edit the sandbox post to include a link to the challenge, removing everything but the title and the link. This is to keep the sandbox more compact and reduce …

In my opinion, the benefits of being able to actually use the smart-search feature on meta outweigh the extremely rare chance that a shining gem of a challenge will be found among the below average, …

May 10, 2022 · When you think your challenge is ready for the public, go ahead and post it, and replace the post here with a link to the challenge and delete the sandbox post.

Are we still deleting sandbox posts? Deleting answers is inconvenient for a few reasons: Deleted answers, their histories and their comments are not viewable to users of all reputation levels.