BOINC active users taking a big hit

[Uzume]

Boinc active users (all projects) have taken a massive hit over the past year and a bit. Currently there are only 176,674 active users across all projects. They aren't going out of their way to advertise the losses but you can throw the following URL ( https://boincstats.com/en/stats/-1/project/detail ) into the Wayback Machine ( https://archive.org/web/web.php ) and see the historical active user data. Back in June 2016 the active users were 437,284 users and it had been growing till that point.

 

You can also throw your own projects page into the Wayback Machine to see how it is faring. Ie, I do Seti@Home work units so the current project page ( https://boincstats.com/en/stats/0/project/detail ) lists 103,019 current active users. Put that URL into the Wayback Machine and back in June 2016 the active user base was 140,858. This is quite a substantial decline, but your preferred projects may have fared better or worse.

 

Might be time for us to reach out to folks who have spare CPU threads going unused since not many people have spare GPU capacity these days.

[kb5zue]

That's too bad about Seti@Home since that is the project that I participate in.  Currently just over 400,000 work units.  We are NOT alone.

 

[GOTSpectrum]

The problem is most CPUs are profitable to mine with... Although I am an on-off folder and have around 200k WUs in seti@home over the last 12 years or so.