The problem is that the survey was flawed because no one from WCG bothered to ask us what should be included. It's like designing a poll. It has to be unbiased. If you only ask the questions you BELIEVE could be an issue rather than first trying to find out what things actually ARE and issue, then your poll or survey is destined to fail - which is exactly what happened here.

And this always how WCG has been run as far back as I can remember. Maybe in the very beginning the staff was more responsive and interested in the views of members but that doesn't seem to be true any more. If it were, we would have been asked for our input in designing the survey - but of course, we weren't.

I did however notice that the number of active users has increased pretty dramatically over the past week even though the rate at which new users are being added seems to be more or less constant if not declining. http://boincstats.com/en/stats/15/project/detail/user

That's encouraging and would be interested in knowing what might have led to that change but I very much doubt it has anything to do with changes to the website, which have been the focus of the survey results.

My guess would be that the addition of a new project has brought some people back who had previously become disenchanted with the lack of new work. If so, maybe that should be a clue to the staff as to the importance of trying to get the message of WCG out to researchers.

Bringing back a GPU project would result in an even greater spike in active users. And yet more than a year after the last such project ended there is nothing in sight.

We'll now see just how many people UGM is able to bring back to WCG and how long that renewed interest will last. But if that is indeed the reason for the recent resurgence, I hope the staff will take this lesson to heart and make more of an effort to bring in new and interesting work.

Yes, i started living in full badge denial, and you can see so 24/7

(would be nice to have an option on the forum profile to not show them in the sidebar).

And thanks for the tip off, looked in notices and see 3 new wcg messages. (the alerting has been switched off in boinctasks, looking when i feel like looking .

The active members is slightly on the up since 8 days. Returners for you know what in amongst no doubt. If that tickles the fancy, great.

Have noted the corruptibility regarding the recruiting badging elsewhere, hoping admins figure out ip localizations of the not too many prize contenders. E.g. anything over anonymized nets like tor is not considered. After all, those who'd not want to be known should remain not to be known in full privacy respecting.

Greetings,
I do not know how many others have done this but, As my wife and children's desk tops shelled out, the new rebuilds were all put under my user name. Any grand kids or great grand kids that want me to set them up will also be under my user name, as I am the only person of the lot to have time to farm them.
The user names shown abandoned are actually running full bore, but not listed. The new ones will not be listed, so no mention of enlistment.
An impossible situation to monitor, by any one other than us.
Cheers To All.