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Originally Posted by MooreteP
This one bothered me:
http://www.firstinspires.org/communi...ing-vulnerable
"The new website was the first large, mission-critical, and complex project I had led since joining FIRST 18 months ago. A large group of staff members had put many, many hours into building this new site, and now it was out there for public critique. I knew that many would love it … but, inevitably, some wouldn’t."
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I agree that this is a nice feature of the new website. I would like to hear how you feel about the rest of the website? |
Great response.
First off, I find it interesting that that particular blog bothered you. We featured it in our fourth installment of KnightVlogger, but for different reasons than why you disliked it. We focused on the vulnerability and how that relates to creativity – which I think more FIRST teams should be open to. Failure isn’t bad, if anything, it teaches better than succeeding the first time every could. We spun that and made a list of how to be more creative on your team and I rather enjoyed it. Regardless, the way they related it back to launching the new website was a bit self-defensive and I can respect how you feel about it.
In general, I think I've had a difference experience with the new website than the majority of the FIRST population. The new FIRST website looks better than the old won from a design standpoint, and it also has the “Leave a Message” chat in the lower right which I have used and found very helpful. I’m a designer at heart, so I appreciate the new aesthetic – it beats the old style which was not very pleasing in terms of organizational websites. All of this is great – but it is not a commentary on the new website’s function.
I cannot speak directly of the new website function, only that I have had to go to the archived website to find pages that should exist on the new one but don’t. This particular page was for the FIRST Parody Contest guidelines, which ended up not being guidelines as much as suggestions (which I am salty about the ambiguity, but that’s not really on topic). I don’t need to find teams often and, when I do, I simply google search them. I understand this does not work for everyone, so I tried looking up our team, Team 2052 KnightKrawler, on their website. It showed up three pages, all for awards or various things, but nothing team specific. I concur with your points. New website needs added function.
On a side note, I do like the url better, just because it’s not country specific.
Quick Edit: I am a little iffy about if this flaw and others still render the whole site "unusable."