A few months back we had 1200 active users, that was even after some started crunching. We are now at 757.

That's pathetic, at this rate not only will we lose 1st but we may dip lower. We need to do something, I haven see many new members in a long time. We use to be welcoming them all the time. Is our team dying out?

I'm not on the forums that often anymore but come on boys we gotta get some new blood in here.

New blood here :)

I came back to Folding, do I count? ;-p

 
Just kidding... But seriously. I also brought this up. Everyone has been into crunching for the past few months it seems, and not folding so much... Idk why honestly.. I know some disagree with the F@H head honcho, but hey we do it for the cause!!! 

I really do think the heat wave def affected us as a whole too besides several other factors. I'm still producing points for the team all month. Hope the new job doesn't affect my monthly numbers... Might kick in the SMP again if its cool enough while I sit at work. But I'm fighting my way to the top 500 soon :D

Its a combination of many reasons, the 600 series cards not having proper folding support, people had to cut back the heat and power bill and needed to use the air conditioner instead, some decided to run crunching@evga due to big advance limited to 16 core cpu's now, etc.

+1

Muhahaha, it's alive. Just got my new SR-2 stable @ 3.8mhz for now. Loaded gpu tracker since that' s the quickest way to start folding. Let's see what she can do.

T

texinga

turbomadman
Muhahaha, it's alive. Just got my new SR-2 stable @ 3.8mhz for now. Loaded gpu tracker since that' s the quickest way to start folding. Let's see what she can do.

You mad scientist you!    Congrats on putting the proper OC to the neck-bolts of your new "monster Folding Rig"! 

Thanks Tex. Yah she ain' pretty laying flat on the table all open like that, but she is folding.

Wow I didn't realize there still wasn't support for the 600's
Been busy with my son, he's 1 now and seems like all I do is chase him around. I try to get on here once in a while to see how things are going.
Wish I could build another rig but that's so not in the cards right now.

Good to see the returning folders and new folders!
Thanks to all!

still got 1 rig folding 24/7

It's too flippin' hot to fold yo.

EliteGeek91

 

Just kidding... But seriously. I also brought this up. Everyone has been into crunching for the past few months it seems, and not folding so much... Idk why honestly.. I know some disagree with the F@H head honcho, but hey we do it for the cause!!! 

Well... Let me offer some other thoughts on this... We lost 500+ members in folding in the last few months... And only gained "6" in Crunching from the dates of June 15th to today. OH.. And two of them seem to have come from other teams.
 
http://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/team/detail/58913125/memberMovement
 
The following is an in general comment not aimed at you...
 
Enough!!!
 
I have tried nicely, long windily, and down right ignored it. It is about bleeping time that the Waaaaaaaaaaaa mobiles of our team stops bashing those that ARE supporting the TEAM with EVGA and starts looking at what is "Actually" wrong... Using excuses about Crunching is just that... Excuses. We are all on the same team looking to help humanity how WE chose with OUR parts. Until someone ships me/you/us a Farm and asks you/us/me to do particular projects, we/I will continue to work what our/my heart feels good about.
 
So... What is the real issue here as asked in the OP? Mediocre support for the 600's? Heck yes... Weather? Sure... Attitudes rubbing off? Sure. Points scrambling about? Sure...
 
Personally I think it is many things. One is without any doubt in my mind EVGA. Yes they help with the bucks. But that is not our driver on it's own merit now is it? We are here to help them with "Their" team, yet we are consistently "Last" in the project list when we ask for something. Harsh for me to say? Maybe, but I am also a member and that is how it looks from where I sit at this moment... Need an example... 
 
http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=1613180
 
And,
 
http://forums.evga.com/tm.aspx?m=1670677

Im with you AB ....Like I said quit posting excuses...
 
I don't care why someone can't fold  or has switched.. because some of the reasons might be justified. (Besides some of us switch when either team needs help)
 
the key is working to improve things rather than stir up hornets nests.
 
1. offer ideas
2. offer help - ie we can PM people individually, help run contests
3. offer incentives - Badges,mugs,Tees, hoodies, prizes, etc
   (thx to those on the DC team that have made the goodies a success)
4. recruit like your fingers are on fire
 
As a side note I would like to thank everyone that does give to the community in whatever way they can
 
even helping someone setup their rigs for folding or crunching in my mind is doing what is needed to help out
 
My big thx still go out to the senior members like drougnor,troy8d, DutchForce, Punchy ....and Im sure probably leaving out a lot that have donated time, money, effort and prizes for our team.
 
So if you feel like I left you out in someway... give the thread a shout and chime in and remind some of us on how bad our memory is
 

The Folding gods (or so it seems that is how they think of themselves at Stanford) led me to leave folding.  Did not see me spending the money on Power and hardware when it seemed they did as they pleased with the work units and points.  
 
The new SMP client is much better and seems many of the SMP WU issues have been getting ironed out.  Sad no new GPU client/WU for the new Nvidia GPU's.
 
I still have an SR2 that I need to bring online once I get a couple day free to get it build and burned in, but at the moment i am holding around 190K PPD so not great but doing my part to keep [H] from being able to just walk over us.