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Originally Posted by Chris is me
Does FIRST have any idea how much teams still rely on the old site to find anything? Sometimes I really think they make almost all of their decisions in a vacuum from the actual experience of teams.
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It's like any big business. They spent thousands on what they were sold as much better website. They don't want to spend maintenance on the old site, or spend money to operate it since the new site is much better. So they turn it off. There are only a few vocal end users in the base of established teams (aka current customer) that care. They are creating new teams (aka new customers) at a decent rate, so disenfranchising a few old customers isn't a big deal. Especially since the friction to transfer to a new vendor (FIRST -> VEX) is so high, the current customers won't move. Keeping the old website is a sign that maybe the new site isn't great, so the old has to go.
tl;dr: It's a business 101 thing and FIRST is a business.