Message boards : Cafe Rosetta : BOINC, not so well reviewed
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FluffyChicken Send message Joined: 1 Nov 05 Posts: 1260 Credit: 369,635 RAC: 0 |
http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2006/11/straining_earth.html Straining Earthlings' Terrestrial Intelligence Since we have little control over BOINC and they like to hide away in their 'lists' especialy the alpha list. That is somthing we really need to try and alter. I post to ROMS blog and I've tried posting to both lists but my posts never turn up (maybe it because it's constructive critisism and D. Anderson doesn't like it, well that what it feels like when I try to post there and they never get though) So I hope we can make these message board a better home. Unfortunatly I think the Q&A are pittiful since virtually nobody gets a reply there if it is not from the 3 usuals and we rememebr to pop in. The Message boards are confusing, stickies of information everywhere BUT that is getting looked at a one up to the moderators. Ok so they are restricted by the primative board interface. One thin I think seasoned BOINC users forget it new users want it simple, want something that looks modern and nice. They don't want something to be BOINC because that what BOINC use, they couldn't care less about that. Anyways, I hope we can make Rosetta@home more friendly. Team mauisun.org |
dcdc Send message Joined: 3 Nov 05 Posts: 1831 Credit: 119,502,108 RAC: 11,115 |
i think it might be a good idea if all the boinc projects shared a boinc section on the message boards. It'd be good for inter-project comms, as well as troubleshooting, and it seems crazy to have the same software discussed on different forums with no or little discussion between them. cheers Danny |
FluffyChicken Send message Joined: 1 Nov 05 Posts: 1260 Credit: 369,635 RAC: 0 |
i think it might be a good idea if all the boinc projects shared a boinc section on the message boards. It'd be good for inter-project comms, as well as troubleshooting, and it seems crazy to have the same software discussed on different forums with no or little discussion between them. I mentioned that before to Rom (had no comment back yet). (see Rom's Q&A http://www.romwnet.org/dasblogce/CommentView,guid,326053a5-89a6-42c4-ab15-f42b8b98f3f1.aspx#commentstart ) Team mauisun.org |
BennyRop Send message Joined: 17 Dec 05 Posts: 555 Credit: 140,800 RAC: 0 |
I was directed to the Boinc forums when making comments and suggestions specifically about Boinc. And I got the impression that whomever is in charge of the message board software is a little overworked/too busy - and perhaps that hasn't changed. |
River~~ Send message Joined: 15 Dec 05 Posts: 761 Credit: 285,578 RAC: 0 |
i think it might be a good idea if all the boinc projects shared a boinc section on the message boards. It'd be good for inter-project comms, as well as troubleshooting, and it seems crazy to have the same software discussed on different forums with no or little discussion between them. It's a great idea. Only there are technical issues to be decided before it is done. Does everyone get joined to the boinc-wide board as soon as we join a project? (this would be the easiest for the user) Maybe I'd be Rostta:River~~ if I went there from here, and LHC:River if I went there from there. Even this takes some fiddling as the cookies set up when you log in to Rosetta will not usually be sent to another site when you go there. Do we have to register separately for boinc-wide? (this would be the easiest for implementation). This would reduce the user-friendliness to newcomers, but is probably the way to go. Then what do we do about the troll problem. One reason I don't like SETI is too many trolls on their forums - not that they have a hegher proportion than other boinc sites, but with more users a bigger proportion of them will be trolls. SETI had to implement a 'no-credit no-post' policy to keep out trolls (and have upped the entry point recently). The unified access to the boinc boards would just shift those displaced trolls there, if they could post without credit on the boinc boards and needed credit on the main boards of their favoured project. These issues are issues, not problems. They can and should be resolved as the idea of a boinc-wide forum is a good one. Even so it will take more than just bunging in an off-site link to get the boinc wide forum working well. River~~ |
FluffyChicken Send message Joined: 1 Nov 05 Posts: 1260 Credit: 369,635 RAC: 0 |
i think it might be a good idea if all the boinc projects shared a boinc section on the message boards. It'd be good for inter-project comms, as well as troubleshooting, and it seems crazy to have the same software discussed on different forums with no or little discussion between them. Trolls will always be a problem and at least they are in one place rather than all of them at the moment ;-) To be fair to solve that you just need mods & admins with the message board functions that allows them to deal with it easily without to much disurbance to others. Team mauisun.org |
FluffyChicken Send message Joined: 1 Nov 05 Posts: 1260 Credit: 369,635 RAC: 0 |
This is what has come out of the fall from that article so far, at least they are getting some ideas (many of us have been saying for ages ;-)http://boinc.berkeley.edu/suggestions.php I know they are hard pushed by the amount of programming time they can give. If some one can post in there, could you ask them if they have asked the BBC-CCE about their experiences since that is probably the largest publisised project in one go. What feedback and advice and improvements can they give ? Team mauisun.org |
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