Although my visits to the forums have become less frequent recently (due to other commitments/time pressures), i've just read all the above/visited the newly updated 'Projects' page - and I'm in total agreement of what has already been said. The Community (i.e. the middle letter of WCG) needs to be involved - otherwise there is no community. Thus, this idea needs to be revisited AND FAST!!! Yes, resources should (quite rightly) be focused on launching new projects - but, if decisions such as this, are made and results in NO COMMUNITY, then what's the point of launching new projects if there's no one left TO CRUNCH THEM!!!

I'm by no stretch of the word 'a big cruncher', but I can certainly see the end of my contribution if I've nothing to aim for.

Please just remember, in the 'real world', companies have gone out of business by making (seemingly insignificant) changes, and not realising the impact it has until it's too late. Please, please, please, don't fall into this trap - for the sake of the fantastic scientific research that THE COMMUNITY is providing.

That's not the issue, the issue is that API (listed in whole here), has ending with NULL (bolded & underlined):

{"project":{"completionDate":null,"id":123,"name":"Microbiome Immunity Project","overviewUrl":"\/about_us\/viewNewsArticle.do?articleId=533","releaseDate":"2017-08-22T00:00:00","shortName":"mip1","statisticsUrl":"\/stat\/viewProject.do?projectShortName=mip1","status":"proj_stats.active"}}

KLiK, I was responding to the question where the launch date of a specific project could be found, not the ECD. I already mentioned earlier in this thread that at least ECD should be kept in API, if WCG says that the previous version of "Research" page caused problems. So we have 100% agreement on this issue :)

There is however slim chance that we will see the "improved" research page returned to the previous version. Given the limited development resources, having to admit they blew one or two years allocation of site development resource allocation on a turkey is not something that is going to happen.

Big Cheese: "So how did the website upgrade go?"
Minion1: "Errm... Very well actually, sir! We rolled the change out with no issues. It worked perfectly from the start!
Big Cheese: "Good, good. How was it received?"
Minion 2: "Err...Actually, surprisingly well sir! Of the tens of thousand's of volunteers less than two dozen had anything negative to say about it."
Big Cheese: "Good, good. There will always be a few stick-in-the-muds who resent change. I'm glad to see my idea to improve the page was a success!"

*Any similarity of the above sketch to IBM staff living or dead is purely co-incidental

I'd like to see progress bars for the belated climate projects. Use a Gaant chart style to document missed milestones and delays.