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Re:Coronavirus Spike Protein Binder Design by astroalex on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @10:57AM (#22475551)
I happened to work in the lab at the University of Washington that helped maintain the game as an undergrad. Here's a published scientific article about the use of Foldit for science: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature09304

(I'm not disagreeing that the website is badly designed.)

Re:Coronavirus Spike Protein Binder Design by natch on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @12:19PM (#22476511)
Thanks. I’d quibble about the design word... the design is ok; it’s the wording that is lacking. Or some clear thinking. I mean for all the effort they are spending on this, it would take like one paragraph or less to clear things up. It could be fixed with five minutes of effort.
Re:Coronavirus Spike Protein Binder Design by goldenchrome on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @12:57PM (#22476962)
Design encompasses everything that people interact with, so words are part of design. In fact there's a whole discipline called "User Experience Writing".
Re:Coronavirus Spike Protein Binder Design by natch on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @01:10PM (#22477088)
Sure, no argument there, although you’re being a bit over picky about semantics (even more than I was!). But my point stands that this could be fixed with a single paragraph of text.