David Baker on the benefits and frustrations of NewChapter

Started by v_mulligan

v_mulligan Lv 1

Dr. David Baker of the University of Washington's Institute for Protein Design addresses Foldit players to talk about the importance of the changes in the NewChapter release of Foldit, and to acknowledge the frustrations that some players are having with the game during the transition.

henry.hirsch Lv 1

Hello,

I was fine with NC but the most recent update
introduced more crashes in an already unstable client.
Most of the time the client window does not respond. The best way
to interact with the client is to kill it and then restart the whole thing.

I sometimes find myself waiting 3 to 5 minutes siting in front of an empty frame waiting for the client to show up.

Can you please start testing the releases and maybe add some quality control? I know that you have a staging system, but that does not seem to work very well if the tests are not run long or ferral enough.

I am not telling you what to do. But there is a line between inconveinient and unplayable and with a few more crashes the client is crossing the line. For me at least.

Regards
Henry