Some of the temporary solutions being implemented (ie: reporting snafus of projects and inconsistencies in cross-resource reporting (when comparing for example gridcoinstats to dc, etc.) but while this article outlines why it was necessary to implement the temporary magnitude boost, it lacked providing any rationale, explanation (and "in plain english" summary of what it means), which started to make me lose confidence in the competency of those implementing these changes, but more importantly, i was losing confidence in the integrity of the system as a whole because now the apples of yesterday could no longer be compared to oranges of today, let alone the bananas just planted.

While this was a dev update and I tried to make it as straight forward as I could, I'm more than happy to clarify it as best as I can.

The boost was necessary to push the researchers' average magnitude above 10 in order to get the network to accept the superblock. We could just remove the 10-mag average requirement to begin with, but that would require a mandatory upgrade or the network would fork (those with the requirement would go one way and those without it would go another way).

A mandatory upgrade is like flipping the switch on a huge steampunk machine, think Howl's Moving Castle. Every exchange have to be taken into maintenance mode to avoid forking, hence the 2-week notice, so if a mandatory can be avoided it's a good thing. Since a mandatory upgrade was coming with the V8 stake engine anyway it was hard to justify another one that would just live for a week or two of exchange uptime. The magnitude boost removal is included in the 3.6.0.1 mandatory upgrade and is set to kick in at September 7 00:00 UTC.

Please let me know if I'm still not making any sense.