The reason for a project to be viewed as "excluded" is when it's not available in the latest SB. This can because of several reasons, like the NN nodes composing the new SB data didn't include it since it was down, or many other reasons.
As stated on the page
The "Excluded Projects" list are projects that has failed to be inclueded in the latest superblock, rewards will not be generated for these projects until they are inclueded again. This may happen because the project servers are down or it was voted out by the community. Please refer to the Gridcoin Projects Forum for more details.
This terminology may need a new name on the page though.
Regarding the "forked" nodes
Four out of five nodes are on the same chain, but stuck in sync because of a current issue with the rewards calculation. The design are working hard on the issue and will hopefully be out with a release to sole this soon.
None of the nodes have currently forked.
The page always uses the nodes that are labeled 'OK', which is the longest chain with the highest difficult.
Great to know that! Would be great to have an indication in the explorer page about the used node.
Thanks for the details, still would be interesting to find how a project can not be included in the last SB. For this particular one (ODLK1), it was on the whitelist, and there were plenty of WorkUnits available.
The nodes uses statistics from projects xml files, usually hosted on smaller servers as many projects are hobbyists. This is one drawback for Gridcoin, and a solution has been in the process for some time.
It has nothing to do with available work units or whitest status. It's still whitelisted, just lack the data to include it for rewards today. You should join the developer team on Slack if you have further questions.
Does that mean that you lose rewards permanently for the time it's not included or only until it gets accepted again?
You will get your owed rewards once the data is available for the nodes to verify again. If the delay is severel weeks, it may affect rewards, but that very rarely happens, especially if the project is up and running.
Your rewards are calculated by your projects Recent Average Credit (RAC) and has a decay of 14 days.
sc-steemit = startail? since i am not on freenode " shunned " and your website does not have an email contact YOUR SITE NEEDS FIXING!! Your news scraper does not work and has not since 8/10/2017 and you need to update we only get project news. Yeah , steemit changed code and you did not? I also like to say awesome stats and monitoring of nodes page , but why ASIA? I understand as Customminer asked me for good links to Asia and I know a little thing or 2 about BGP and peering and have DNS servers from every country to traceroute/ping to show ability from but would love to help the stability of your site... I mean , the foundation does dump 20k GRC into the faucet it should all work... If not startail , I am dearly sorry... If so , talk to lag there is an alt irc network or 2 not everyone steems nor social media and [email protected] would be nice you seem to have typos and ive tried reporting the News section/tab for a month. I love you and your site and <3 over the moon and the sun <3 I invested in http://gridcoin.ch but we will see where that goes I was encouraging a new up and comer! No openSSL!
News not working I know about. Steem changed their system, period.
Why Asia? Why not... I don't see your criticism here.
Foundation didn't dump money on the page, it went straight to users trough the Faucet. There is no longer any foundation funds left and the Faucet is running on donations from many of our users.