...instead of just for the individual projects.

What sign up date should be used?

I have sign up dates going across 18+ months?

I was thinking the first time you signed up for a BOINC project of any kind. The individual projects would be irrelevant - only your credit total from that initial date would matter. Make sense?

Yeah.

I realized that about an hour after I posted.

This would be pretty cool.

Another point to consider is sign up dates for projects to go back before BOINC. SETI and other projects were around before BOINC. Should those be included? Maybe with an Asterisk?

BOINCstats doesn't keep track of non-BOINC projects, so I don't think we should include them. Besides you can't merge old and new credit systems, so it would be very hard to do.

The sign-up date for SETI is already the date for Classic, at least if you kept your account tidy.

Or if Berkeley hasn't messed it up, like with my sign-up date, I have never crunched for Classic, but have a sign-up date of 4. April 1999, while I really joined 24. October 2004.

So if you go for the oldest project, SETI will include the Classic date, but not the Classic WU-count.

I think I just found a place where this already exists (BOINC combined rankings by sign-up date). Go here, find your user profile, and then click on the "(Show users joined on this date)" link.

Maybe this is already well-known - just the first time I've seen it.