When I joined D2OL it was basically dead. Rarely a post made about it and no stats posted or anything. It takes a collective effort from a number of members to lead a charge, and luck... luck in finding a number of people with a common interest to get the project rolling. Find a drug is pretty slow, and results can take days to get, so in a place like this where stats and moving up to the top of the team can be the single most important factor to many a project like this just doesnt dazzle.
It took a drive of membership from 5 active members to over 100 in D2OL to give us a real chance to move up the team list, and unless a group of members are willing to spark interest, and unless the project is interesting enough that is very difficult to accomplish. I hate to say it, but you really have to SELL people on an idea and a project. And the project has to support the need by giving people results they can readily measure. I think the key to getting any push for FAD is to have more nodes per member, because a single machine that pushes one job out in 3-6 days just doesnt spark much excitement. From the posts I read the last couple days FAD is trying to improve the performance and output of its jobs to help that matter somewhat, but time will only tell.
I like the intent of the project, and still have one machine on it, but in the same respect I expect my machines to work 24/7 at 100 percent cpu utilization and to be able to see positive results more than once a week or twice a week. Even if its just a perception, working these machines, financing them, budgeting their operational expense has to net something more for me. And this is primarily why I returned the majority of my machines to D2OL.