Few questions (Forum/Clients/Visualization Platform)

[ogabay]

Hi everyone

New here but have been racking up points decently well.

I had a few questions:

1. Is this the closest thing we have to an official message board for Folding@Home? The Subreddit for FAH does not seem very active.
2. I know there are no clients for non x86 based devices, but are the libraries necessary to build such clients open sourced?
3. Is there a web-based visualization platform for F@H stats? The statistics that are on F@H's website are useful for sure, but not historical and I thought it would be cool to index this stuff and build a statistics and aggregation platform around it. Didn't see anything quite like that in the 3rd party section (except for the iOS/Android visualizers)

Thanks!

[Joe_H]

1. This is the official support forum. Members of the F@h Consortium do post announcements here, and links to other information often get posted here. There is also a Facebook page, a Twitter page, and a Discord channel for F@h. They also post announcements on the F@h site - https://foldingathome.org/news/.

Problems reported here do get passed on to the researchers and developer if members of the forum are unable to help the person posting that issue. They may respond on the forum.

The reddit page was an experiment in communication a few years ago, did not work as well as desired.

2. Parts of the client are open source and posted on GitHub. The remainder is planned to be posted as open source, but that has been interrupted by COVID-19. Eventually they will get that done, no idea on when yet.

3. F@h does provide text files updated every 3 hours for persons wanting to provide such visualizations on their sites. Currently the only such site I am aware of that is active is EOC - https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/. Another site was hosting Kakaostats in Brazil after the original author decided to discontinue running it, but that has been offline for at least a year.

Other visualizers for just an individual's stats can use the third-party API to communicate with the client - https://github.com/FoldingAtHome/fah-co ... Client-API.

[ogabay]

Great! folding@EOC was what I was looking for. Thank you! Looking forward to the open sourcing

[bruce]

4. github provides an official site for documenting bugs and enhancement requests but per paragraph 1b (above) comments posted here often get passed on to that site once there's enough documentation available for somebody with access to the source to be able to attack the issue.