You make some good points. In particular, I see no reason why deadlines should be restricted to six days for normal and three days for resend work units, especially given some of us only run WCG in the background, when our PCs are needed to be on (not 24 hours a day!) and we are not "nursemaiding" it through all the transient download errors.
Cheers
Phillip

As someone else who never received the email (and it wasn't in my spam folder either!) I have to wonder about the parameter selection for sending it and / or data collection to verify since there have been multiple reports of non-receipt by crunchers like me who apparently meet the criteria of currently active user who has been returning test WU results over the past few months.
(I suppose, looking on the bright side, not receiving it meant I wasn't confused by it!

Hi Ralf,
I realise I was not clear. I was not thinking of it as a temporary fix. As you rightly say would be a distraction from fixing the underlying problems. I have been seeing the download problems exacerbate a "time-out" missed deadline for those of us who do not run our PCs every day, let alone 24x7. While SETI@home's deadlines were exceptionally long, I personally found Einstein@home's fortnight deadlines worked better than under a week for WCG.
I suppose a counter-argument is that the current deadlines work and given recent experience of WCG anything that works should be left completely alone!
Phillip

Perhaps some here need to find different way to express their "wish to help with medical research" in that case, than no one will "misread" it. I've seen that many years on SETI with all the server issues over there and never had the impression, that the main reason for all those rants was to help with science. Even when the project should shut down, instead of helping with fast and clean shutdown, those that used to complain most about their computers being idle, used modified clients to bypass server limits and bunker two months worth of work and crunched all of it just for credits, even though the WUs were already validated by additional resends. 0 value for science.

Yes, the situation sucks, but like back than on SETI, it does not help to hammer on the servers which can't handle the load even without it, post here what hardware someone has bought or threaten to leave. Report issues and crunch other projects in the meantime, there are like two dozens other scientifically valuable BOINC projects out there (+ non-BOINC projects), also some with medical research. That member with servers with hundreds GB of RAM could for example run those new rosetta phyton tasks, which most standard PCs can't run. That research isn't far from medical. There were other projects suggested in several threads before the move. No CPU core needs to idle even for one second if someone wants to help the science.

That was the whole idea behind BOINC, one platform for many projects, if one has issues or simply no work, crunch for an other one. You can even configure backup projects, so you don't need to check yourself too often if your devices have enough work.

I got the email too, gave it a try, seen stuck downloads, back to Einstein. I will keep checking the forums for news and will come back, when I can actually help instead of making it even worse by creating additional load on the already overloaded servers.

https://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,44362