No, I do not know that. I wrote what I believed. You are entitled to your opinion as I am to mine. I do agree with you that many researchers are grossly underfunded.
Cheers

I am with you Sgt.Joe. I also trust in WCG's explanation and not at all in RL's one. WCG is trusted organization supporting mankind for a lot of years. RL just started to claim their only intention is to make the World better place. Form anything I was able to see, I still don't know for who

And after several months of running the New-age-currency-system, they are still in Beta phase... I guess some WCG members will say this is also their (WCG' and IBM's) fault.

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I'd like to chime in on a few comments made in this thread:


I can only speak for World Community Grid's actions and intentions. So let me reiterate what I said previously, in case I wasn't clear enough. We didn't realize Ripple Labs wasn't using our APIs for their points calculation system, which is why we didn't anticipate that our recent website changes would break anything on their end. Nothing on our end has changed: we've always been supportive of the Ripple Labs partnership and we've maintained communications with them throughout and continue to do so.

While it's a shame they decided to end the Computing for Good initiative, but we're thankful that it introduced so many to World Community Grid. Rather than passing judgement or blame, we're focusing our efforts on appealing to current Ripple Labs team members to continue their support.


We very much do! Our extensive member study last year identified key areas of growth for us - namely expanding the appeal of World Community Grid to new audiences, particularly those who don't have deep technical expertise and might not be familiar with the concept of volunteer computing, yet care about the humanitarian issues we support. Our recent website release with the more modern look & feel, updated content and new assets (like our new video) to explain who are and what volunteer computing is all about, is one way we hope to expand our reach. We wouldn't have invested in such drastic changes if we didn't wish to grow.


twilyth - unless you break our forum rules, there's no reason for us to edit or delete a comment, even if we don't agree with it.. You're entitled to your opinions (and conspiracy theories )

@ jhindo
Thankyou for the post above. I recall that when the new Communications features were unveiled we were promised "New behind-the-scenes stories from the World Community Grid team" This wasn't quite what I expected but it's a step in the right direction. More please!

[OT] Whilst News has solved the problem of "important research updates.... buried in a forum thread" other important information of interest to the wider community is still being buried in forum threads and the retirement of the Known Issues thread hasn't helped.
is an example to prove my point. The new communications features are great in many ways but without a seachange in WCG communications policy i.e. what, and how, information is shared with members, they're just gilding the lily!

More work is needed!
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I find it amazing that "Ripple Labs wasn't using our APIs for their points calculation system" It appears to me to have been a very amateur setup. knreed's warning about the impact of future changes to the website vis a vis screen scrapping was right on the mark and I, and others, were able to implement the necessary changes in good time.

Member retention is, and has always been, critical to the success of WCG and so I applaud "focusing our efforts on appealing to current Ripple Labs team members to continue their support". I'll be watching, with interest, how this succeeds once CfG finally ends.

Finally I find your last paragraph reassuring. twilyth's posts whilst they may arouse the ire of some, should never be dismissed out of hand. Whilst I might not agree with some of their content, they are always thought provoking and, providing they are within forum guidelines, should be allowed to stand. If nothing else they make for a lively discussion in the forum.

ryan: Thanks for the info

jhindo: I'm sure every time someone sees an incongruity between official statements and facts you would like to call it a conspiracy theory. That's fine - it's not like I expect you to admit what actually happened. And if you would like to denigrate me personally by making certain veiled allegations, please do. I imagine that with your job you need some amusement from time to time.

I learned long ago that the first priority people have is to CYA. I'm sure you're nothing special as far as that goes.