I’d agree, it would be nice for something new! But unless this is a community project I see many issues. Before you sit down and start coding a huge site like this you have to consider multiple things, from how your going to build it, even down to a marketing strategy and finding money to fund the servers. I say this from my own experience.
Last year I built a webcast dashboard called
At The Control. It originally was a small project that only allowed you to follow my team (537). This year we decided to launch it for every one to use… the hardest part going into competition season was getting traffic to the site. Getting views or people to my site isn’t the goal. The goal is to bridge or connect a gap that
FIRST doesn’t already provide, which essentially was accomplished (in my case). But without these great resources I wouldn’t have the traffic I do today. That’s what makes these sites so “invincible” as synth3tk put it, they have been through the storms and similar sites have come and gone but these stood tall and proud. Even through these storms they still had a following.
This past year At The Control was not only a project, but also it turned into my life! You can’t just make something because you have time. Passion and enthusiasm has to be there from the beginning, to sell you’re product or service. You have to show you’re users you really care about what your providing and if you don’t its not going to get a following.
As much as I think it would be great for a new site… I personally think we have a few more years left with our current resources and it will take time for the “right” site to come along to bridge the transition into the future online presence of the
FIRST community.