The dilemma with more badges colors is, that the more levels, the more chance some volunteers get stuck "just before" their next target. Still hurting over the 87 days that Fiocruz Comparative Genome is showing on My Grid.... just 2 days, few hours short of gold.

But why doing this for 4.5 months, and knowing that the Type A would have been only 1K WUs, only going to reliable hosts [but that likely would have been a disabled function under the new server 700], and limited to 1 per core for 5-8 hours, when the big run, just put out the buckets C, would have filled automatically when A+B had passed in the blink of an eye **... the riddles of the Klondike gold diggers fever I suppose. Sorry is all that can be said... it's over.

edit: ** with lots of Rain Thread discussion, no doubt in the preceding weeks to Type C release.

No Scribe, were weren't warned well in advance. They were both surprises. Yes, all projects are expected to end (maybe not FAAH and HPF ), but according to the unofficial dashboard there was 300 days left on CFSW when the announcement was made that there were 6 weeks left. Just 6 weeks prior to that annoucement, there are postings stating the project was only 16% complete. Now even if you were following the signs and trying to complete work on all projects in a logical sequence based on project completion, you would have been surprised.
Now with DDDT2, the last postings by the project scientists and WCG techs (prior to yesterday) had everyone believing that there would be 60 days of WUs after alpha testing of new WUs was complete. The next posting (yesterday) after 4-1/2 months of us wondering (and asking) what was going on states that the project is done. I do not understand from yesterday's posting what happened to the expected work or what happened in the intervening 4-1/2 months.
What happened in both of these cases was a complete surprise to us mere crunchers. The premature completion of both projects was not to be expected from the information that was given to us.

Cheers

Why: The reason why I had buckets* out every morning is that DDDT2 WUs usually came without warning while I was at work (WCG and I are very close in time zones). In your timezone Rob, you would be seeing the start of rain (for those not following the DDDT2 threads rain = sporadic release of DDDT2 WUs) in the late afternoon through early evening. In my timezone I had to be prepared in advance. We were expecting 60 days of work and it would take 53.3 more days for my 3 crunchers to reach 2 years of work. I "needed" to get the A/B units as well to ensure my sapphire fever was satisfied within a safe margin to allow for the occassional glitches such as power outage, having to shut down whilst out of town, WUs that error out, or perhaps the project completing sooner due to everyone rushing to complete. I was just doing what we we had all been admonished to do.

*I started a few weeks after the announcement, when the A/B units would have been expected. So maybe only 4 months of buckets out every morning.

Cheers

It is just my feeling of whole "cause". It can be way from reality, but I am guessing nobody from us will ever hear/read the real reason of such parting.

WCG can, or can not share information regarding its co-operation with its partners (probably there is more CAN NOT than CAN). And I have a feeling, that WCG just took a decision to finish the co-op with such unreliable partner w/o lot of buzz about it.

If this is (some kind of) truth, it is sign of professionalism if you ask me.