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Re: Decommissioning of USFIRST.org archived site
This is bad.
FIRST seems to not understand that some of us use the old stuff. For example, this Fall we built a demo bot out of some old FTC parts we had lying around. But I had a terrible time trying to find documentation about setting up the software. There were plenty of non-FIRST sites that had overviews about this, but for the real details they all linked to documentation on the FIRST web site -- that appears to have been completely removed from the World Wide Web. A mere broken link we could have dealt with -- but this stuff was completely gone.
It cost nearly nothing to keep a site of static content on the web nowadays.
You really need to think about creating stable URLs to old content -- especially documentation. Yes, FTC may not use NXT bricks anymore, but some of us still have them around.
At least stuff like cRIOs and Jaguars are in better shape -- mostly because the real documentation was at the vendor sites, not FIRST's.
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