Which BOINC projects were affected most by the "magnitude zero" events ?



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I looked at the BOINC projects + users that were "victims" of the last magnitude zero events.

As you can see, users from these 3 BOINC projects have "suffered" the most from the mag zero and its effects, in total 10 days (237h):
  • Numberfields (w13)
  • Rosetta (w15)
  • SETI (w16)
And also:
  • Citizen science grid (w3)
  • Einstein (w6)
  • LHC (w9)
  • VGTU (w22)
  • World community grid (w23)

The least affected was:
  • Amicable Numbers (W1)

Some side effects to be investigated:
  • the users who were affected most: did they or plan they to switch projects b/c they saw for other projects there were magnitudes?
  • how deterring are these troublesome superblock events for new users, outsiders ?

I'll add later more to the table (amount users, ...)

See also:

Comments

  1. ErkanJuly 20, 2017 at 5:08 PM

    comment 10h ago:

    This is an ongoing PR disaster, for at least 4 weeks.
    One of the core functionalities of Gridcoin is NOT working reliabily

    I've now added a section:

    "So, what are the possible reasons for the delay/mag zero this time?"
    at: The 2nd superblock in row that made us wait so long (includes 68% of whitelisted BOINC projects)

    in short:

    WCG + SETI offline may have played a role, but
    it seems more the CENTRALIZED and NOT OPENSOURCED harvest server made trouble (we are still waiting for an official dev statement)



    comment 6h ago:
    some people were not so happy about this "PR diaster", so let me quote also others:

    "As for the Superblock issue, I hope, we get this fixed, because instable SB's or missing projects is obviously not really the best publicity we can get." (here)
    if wished, I could add also some quotes by the "normal users" who experienced these all and gave comments at different places ? to illustrate different viewpoints by "the public"

    Also, to mention now also some other effects of the magnitude zero/delayed superblocks:

    influence on polls: main dev Rob: "I do see that mag votes done during a bad superblock should be invalidated" (see more comments in bugtracker)
    "I know you could run into issues with hitting that 14-day limit on owed GRC," (here)
    effects of long SB creation times: 'e.g. newcomers to Gridcoin currently can not get rewarded or rewarded fairly (since their magnitude builds up at begin). The fair rewarding is also important, b/c people can just sit on their "free" magnitude which holds longer' (see section: "Why is this important?" here); also: "when the superblock was stuck , i exploited going off the whitelist and cruched other shit since i know my stats wouldnt be effected"

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