RE: "For the betterment of BOINC" - Post suggestions on how to improve BOINC!
I don't see any true value in integrating social media into the BOINC client, although a BOINC volunteer running updates on the network on some social media platforms could do wonders. Things such a users being published in highly regarded academic journals could be leveraged far more than they are.
With respect to the BOINC client, some things I would love to see:
More meaningful integration of resource share. As it stands, this function only seems useful if left to run over a long time and if the projects you work on do not change their work units. It would be great to see a feature that lets us set the manager to finish all jobs for project 1, THEN move on and do project 2, etc. If any jobs for projects higher up the chain appear, stop and do them first.
Manual hardlocking of the CPID. I have shown that this can be done by manually editing the data files, and that this can influence the CPIDs registered on project servers. Lets end this CPID nightmare and just let users lock their CPID on the client. To prevent a CPID being stolen or used by another party, tie it to the user login. Even better, give them a private key that is needed to lock a specific CPID.
To truly put BOINC on the map, it needs to do something remarkable. If SETI discovers an alien signal, or if Einstein finds an unknown stellar phenomina, or is SRBase or PrimeGrid finds the largest public megaprime. When this happens, lets hope there are existing channels in place to leverage such a discovery.
Anyway, I adore BOINC. This was intended as constructive idea as requested. Even if none of this is ever implemented, the platform will hold my loyalty.
+1 more resource utilization control
+1 CPID locking
I think that a simple drop-down menu linking to some team-neutral platforms wouldn't hurt, perhaps full integration like auto-tweeting would be more appropriate within individual BOINC project websites rather than within the client.
hmmm
personally, I struggle to see the benefits integrated social media brings to any endeavor -- even drop down menus. if people are visiting hubs of information directly from the client... your branding might not be good enough! =p.
social media, as I see it, doesn't produce anything of value and more often than not reduces value (you have to go viral to benefit and you're more likely to get a trollbox than a virus). social media is all about hype and nothing else while BOINC is an established producer of results.
the benefits of integrating social media might not be worth the damage that integration could do to BOINC's reputation
that said, my views are obviously tainted with bad experiences, and what you're talking about seems to be different than my experiences. so if you, @cm-steem, can clarify what integrated social media might look like, I'm all ears.
Directing thousands of users to the #boinc sub-steemit page, or to /r/boinc on reddit, or to the BOINC telegram group could help grow the team-neutral BOINC communities (which are currently lacking). We really need to get the whole of the BOINC community to interact with one another instead of acting aggressively to each other because of 'team poaching' on their team forums.