I like others have been with Seti@home for years and I think that this change over could well have done with more testing. However with over 5 million members i feel it is inevitable that during the transition there will be problems.The guys at berkeley i am sure must be under an extreme amount of pressure to try and iron out the bugs and i feel sure that they will achieve it. Remember guys this is'nt just about moving up a leader board this is important scientific work and every ones contribution is important. Lets just keep a little bit of calm over the next few weeks and it will all come sweet. (And no i do not work for them or perhaps we all do !)

Hi,

This is not really a question, but I think this should be kept in mind by all participants....
I just have one comment : I don't have the solution, but moving 5 millions users from one system to another needs to be well managed.
Maybe they should have select some testers for a while. I don't assume they did not... but maybe more testing should have been necessary.

But keep going in Berkeley's, you're doing a great work, and yes, I'll be patient..
...Aren't we looking for ETs for hundred years now ??

> Maybe they should have select some testers for a while. I don't assume they
> did not... but maybe more testing should have been necessary.

There were 20,000 beta testers...

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> > Maybe they should have select some testers for a while. I don't assume
> they
> > did not... but maybe more testing should have been necessary.
>
> There were 20,000 beta testers...

Of course, with hindsight, they could have migrated users in batches, instead of opening it up to all five million users at once. Just like what Gmail is doing.

> Hi,
>
> This is not really a question, but I think this should be kept in mind by all
> participants....
> I just have one comment : I don't have the solution, but moving 5 millions
> users from one system to another needs to be well managed.

As of Friday afternoon, July23,2004, there are less than 26,000 SETI/BOINC users that have received at least 1 credit.

On the old S@H project, five million accounts were setup over the life of the project, but most of those people quit with very few work-units completed. If you finished 100 work-units, you were ahead of a large percentage of users. Before the new project started, there were certainly less than one-half million ACTIVE users on the old S@H project.