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grctest / Gridcoin-Site

Open source Gridcoin website -- CM's fork
https://github.com/gridcoin-community/Gridcoin-Site/
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Move/Remove 'Select BOINC projects' from pool guide #47

Closed grctest closed 7 years ago

grctest commented 7 years ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/gridcoin/comments/6k10bt/step_1b_at_httpwwwgridcoinusguidespoolhtm_may/

I believe when seeing "Choose BOINC projects from the whitelist", many people will understand it as choosing a project to join at BOINC client software based on the white list, which should not be done if participating pool mining.

As I mentioned in this post (https://www.reddit.com/r/gridcoin/comments/6hvm5f/i_needs_to_be_emphasized_that_the_crunchers/), project should be added by syncing with the pool account manager.

Perhaps worth moving step 1B to 1C, or should it just be entirely removed?

silent5am commented 7 years ago

No, 1B is fine, it just needs to be after 1C and/or part of 1C.

For pool crunching, ppl first should register with the pool, then select a project from the pool's whitelist while logged in in their pool account, then sync with BOINC manager.

I'd basically just write a short transcript of the grcpool videos - so ppl can read the basic steps and if they still don't get it they can watch the videos.

About Katiee's pool: is this still working?

In general I would not make suggestions such as "If I had to pick between the two pools, I'd use ..." because that's not really our place to do imho. It's the project's main hub as far as I understand, so it should be neutral and just display all options currently avaiable.

However, what we could implement is some sort of "pool status" - similar to game server status, e.g. green dot for "pool up and running", yellow dot for "pool semi-active", orange dot for "maintenance/offline" or I don't know.

As for Katiee's pool: would it be possible to take it over from Katiee?

grctest commented 7 years ago

Removed the pool suggestion, reworked the partials to move the project selection around, pushed to production. Thanks 👍