I don't remember hearing of the BOINC Census. Where was it advertised?

A few points:

1)I've never heard of this census and tracking it back by the OP, it was 1 single post on this community forum. If you are to post future census polls, you should post a few times here (not sure where else you publicized) instead of just once.

2)This poll had ~500 respondents. And that's out of hundreds of thousands of registered users and at worst maybe 20,000. 500 people is a very, very small sample size and can easily be skewed (maybe only newbies replied, for example). If you're not polling about 20% of your user base, there's really no point in polling.

3)I do agree with many of the points in the "Your feedback" section at the bottom of https://thesciencecommons.org/BOINC/Census/2023/ Specifically:

-BOINC should be publicized more, whether that be social media, forums, instant messaging, etc.
-People are concerned about the slow decline of projects and their user base.
-More support for ARM processors for both SOCs and mobile phones
-More communication from project admins


I am very concerned that it feels like we have 300 people contributing to WCG when years ago we had hundreds of thousands. That's what it feels like. And that's what it feels like from the extreme lack of communication from WCG and lack of communication (in laymens terms) from the Projects about WHAT HAS ALL OUR WORK ACCOMPLISHED THE PAST 6-12 MONTHS.

WCG (and/or its Projects) has refused to port to mobile devices (such as iPhone, iPad) that number in the many billions which would make WCG so much more available than a traditional computer (which many people simply either no longer use, power on, or own) and more importantly, yield far times the # of Results in far less time. But no. WCG seems to be the only app that can't figure out how to run on iOS.

Lastly, why WCG refuses to actively promote itself on the web, magazine articles, magazine advertisements, school promotions, contests on the WCG homepage (such as for schools or businesses to see how much they can crunch for 30 days), tv/youtube science talkshows, etc. is beyond me. And this has been a problem for AT LEAST 10 YEARS if not far longer. It's like WCG staff created the webpage in 2003 and then just quit.