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Originally Posted by tjf
The most worrying part about this whole decommissioning is that they don't seem to know what parts people actually use...
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This seems unlikely on a substantive level, given that
I can tell what people actually use, at least to some degree of comparative accuracy. Alexa, SimilarWeb, and a bunch of the smaller checkers I looked at all agree that firstinspires gets about 3 times as much traffic as usfirst. Which is good, but that's still a lot of usfirst traffic.
Moreover, both checkers agree that firstinspires gets most of its traffic from web searches like "first", "first robotics", "fll", "frc", etc. For its part, usfirst traffic mostly comes from "stims" "tims" "vims" kind of stuff. This should give HQ a pretty good idea of who's going where and why--and how to fix it. An speaking of fixing things, the vast majority of users landing on usfirst--after you omit the Googlers--came directly
from firstinspires. (firstinspires is also directing
to usfirst, though it's to my.usfirst.org, which they may be keeping. SimilarWeb tells me this is the #3 outgoing site for firstinspires after youtube and firstinspires' own blob core.)
I really hope they fix all that before kickoff and decommissioning.