I've been doing GPU crypto mining for about 2 years now. A new coin can drop and I can fire up many different OS's and various miners with mining algo's but one of the hardest things is BBP as it constantly changes.
When BBP didn't seem to work it was check for a new wallet, if that didn't work I dug through a lot of sites spending hours trying to get the proper configs. Then PODC and setting that up and now I guess it's gone. Anytime I get it figured out then a few months later it's a whole new thing. Now it appears to be POG?
If we're to grow, things need to become easier which means older non-computer users from church would be able to download BBP and the system would configure itself and it could alert them a new wallet needs to be downloaded etc. I think BBP scares a lot of users off with all the tech/configs and acronyms.
Honestly though, I can configure Awesome Miner, or HiveOS much easier for a coin--one time setup that could take 30 mins or less--load up a miner and configure for a pool and it just runs for weeks, months. Wallets rarely change once mature. All these changes back and forth with BBP isn't helping any--maybe it adds to the frustration which bleeds out into the forums.
I want to help the orphans (we have two kids through Compassion we support) through BBP--but we need to stabilize what is going on as a non-tech person won't waste their time with all the changes. A one click wallet/miner sort of setup that grandma can use sort of thing. Even if we can't get to a grandma setup, at least we stabilize the coin and it's methods.
My opinion is we're gonna need to make it easier for users to come to BBP.