Well, I'm calm...but thanks for asking for my health!

When I do say some words like "it would be of benefit to us", that doesn't mean all of us. To be frank with you, I don't really think of you at all, when I'm writing this.
What I'm saying is a view from them portion of volunteers here.
& YES, there are many views there.

Now, don't be rude & saying things that are not appropriate to the forum language.
All suggestions are perfectly legit & easily defend-able.

Well, when you try to impose the number of batches on the MAIN RESEARCH WEBPAGE, then you impose that everybody knows about those. There are, again saying them, several reasons why not:
1. NOT ALL projects use batches
2. those batches can be written when you open the PROJECT WEBPAGE - as people who open them want more information
3. Like Jobs used to say, you have to make things SIMPLE enough for your mother to use (actually it's: "That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.").
In all these things people of WCG have to ask themselves: is this webpage easy for my mother & father to use? Does my aunt know how to install & setup BOINC with this install? Does my uncle needs to see batches on the RESEARCH PAGE, or can they be put somewhere else?
Remember, we have all been dumb in one point of our life, as we have been illiterate!

BTW, new cruncher is "average Joe" (or Jane, to be sexually correct), which doesn't use forums. Nor does it know how to use them?
Most people have just phones, browse some web, check their facebook (or other social media: twitter, instagram, etc.). They don't even use reddit, which is easier than a forum!

When you say you'd like to see something & not saying where you want it - it gets people confused. Why? 'cause it can be "everywhere" on the WCG webpage. So you have to be more focused in telling people exactly what would you want & where... But that's just my observation!
Maybe it will be easier when you say also where would you put some information, so people will know what exactly are you saying.
& WCG can't know where to put some new information, so this topic is here to HELP THEM, not making their life even heavier!

As we have seen, batches are ordered in a fashion of database inputs (base from pharmaceutical companies). Some people here might come from the industry & see the name of the database, from the size of the database.
Let me give you a better picture: you got researcher, who want to fight some virus. He gets the program (like VINA), gets the digital image for the virus, gets the database (from WCG, from their university - but all those databases come from pharmaceutical industry giants - mostly). From database, you can get several batches (molecule variants), which then is sliced into WU for crunching. What WCG is responsible (admins, correct me if I'm wrong) is to slice & send out data for crunching to each of us.
So no, number of batches is not a WCG job, but slicing & sending out WUs is.

Still we haven't heard anything from admins & techs, is there NDA signed between researchers & WCG. But as it's a competitive marketplace, I do thing they sign something very similar.
Waiting for their confirmation or denial...

Are you 2 sure about all project having batches?
As FAH2 has a parent-daughter WUs, not sure there are batches.
Did the water projects have batches also?
Did the genome comparison projects also have them? All of them or just some of them? I do remember that UGM had them, but to differ the one organism genome from the other.

Well, we come from a different points in chain of command. I can expect some ideas, as long as they are "productive". Like I said OK to your proposal, but not on the RESEARCH WEBPAGE, as it's too much for a new people & most people don't need so much information. But in every PROJECT WEBPAGE, there could be enough room for implementing a total size of the project, as the graph there is so much bigger.
But at 1st glance we have to easy to look at & to understand. Remember that we need to attract people on WCG & to make them stay. Why? Well, I've attracted between 30-40 people to sign up on WCG, most of them only signed up. Only 10 people stayed! Let's say that 1/2 of them didn't care about what we do here. That means that WCG lost in complication about 1/4 of the people of not being simple enough for them.
So yes, that's why I did say NO to the putting batches on RESEARCH WEBPAGE. Most of them won't come here to read the forums & find a solutions for their quest. In fact, most of them won't come here from the computer, but from the Androids...

BTW, techs & admins: is there a chance to have a "Android BOINC named WCG" (or similar) in the future?

ErikaT +1
Cheers

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Here is a high level summary of the posts made by jhindo in this thread:

• We are looking to replace the progress bars. This will not happen before Q3 2017.
• What the progress bars will likely be replaced with is a higher level idea of how far along the project is at. And any more granular information (such as a projected end date, whenever known), would be provided elsewhere.
  
• At this time, it has yet to be determined if we will have to pause the Smash Childhood Cancer project.
  
• We will discuss and figure out how we might tweak our member communication processes to address concerns expressed in this thread.
  

Thank you for your support,
ErikaT

Well, now we know - as pointed out in the Pause for Smash Childhood Cancer project