thinking of leaving find-a-drug

[geobot]

im thinking of going back to my old team. other than 'bitspit' posts nobody even welcomes new members. theres no communcations within the team

 

[BitSpit]

Except for stats, there's just not much to talk about at the moment. The only new things are the beta releases. I posted that the linux beta client was available but no one seemed to care. Usually, if there are posts here, it's from new users asking setup questions. I guess that's what happens with software that's install-and-forget.

 

[geobot]

i use to belong to techimo.com ... look at there forum... seems there is quite a bit to talk about... you actually feel like a team member....
i guess im going back. to quiet for me here.

 

[beatle]

Sorry to see you go, Geo. I too feel it's a little quiet, at least compared to all the Seti messages.

 

[Confused]

Sorry to see anyone leave the team, and forums, geobot


Unfortunately, that seems to be the way here, that the smaller projects get dwarfed by the bigger projects. Although, saying that, things have improved GREATLY in the past 6 months! 6 months ago, you couldn't move for Seti stuff. Since then, D2OL, F@H, DF, SoB etc have all come more into the limelight, and the Seti threads are getting split up more by these other projects. Of course, there are still the even smaller projects that don't seem to get hardly any talk and feedback at all, and that really does suck


It's sad to see you go, especially as you haven;t been here too long


Confused

 

[RustyNale]

geobot, come on over to FaH, we could use the help to regain the ground we just lost...the more the merrier

And we talk to one another, and to others...

 

[mastertech01]

When I joined D2OL it was basically dead. Rarely a post made about it and no stats posted or anything. It takes a collective effort from a number of members to lead a charge, and luck... luck in finding a number of people with a common interest to get the project rolling. Find a drug is pretty slow, and results can take days to get, so in a place like this where stats and moving up to the top of the team can be the single most important factor to many a project like this just doesnt dazzle.

It took a drive of membership from 5 active members to over 100 in D2OL to give us a real chance to move up the team list, and unless a group of members are willing to spark interest, and unless the project is interesting enough that is very difficult to accomplish. I hate to say it, but you really have to SELL people on an idea and a project. And the project has to support the need by giving people results they can readily measure. I think the key to getting any push for FAD is to have more nodes per member, because a single machine that pushes one job out in 3-6 days just doesnt spark much excitement. From the posts I read the last couple days FAD is trying to improve the performance and output of its jobs to help that matter somewhat, but time will only tell.

I like the intent of the project, and still have one machine on it, but in the same respect I expect my machines to work 24/7 at 100 percent cpu utilization and to be able to see positive results more than once a week or twice a week. Even if its just a perception, working these machines, financing them, budgeting their operational expense has to net something more for me. And this is primarily why I returned the majority of my machines to D2OL.

 

[Crazee]

Geobot I am sorry to see you leave. Lately it has been very busy for me and I haven't been able to post as much as I would like to.

I am going to try to spend some more time on this project. When Seti I ends this will most likely be the project that receives the bulk of my processing power.

 

[RustyNale]

Dasm! My apologies to those on team find-a-drug

When I first read geobot's post I thought he meant another team as in not from AnandTech...this was in no way an attempt to entice one of your crunchers away from you. No one said anything to me, I just read the post again and realized what I'd posted...

 

[Crazee]

Don't sweat it Rusty, if he would be happier on F@H TeAm and stay with AT I would rather he do that than return to TechIMO