A new way to browse the FIRST website

[Pat Fairbank]

Originally Posted by Tristan Lall

Another feature request: /u/#, where # is the team update number from the current year.

Great idea, and it's now implemented.

http://frclinks.com/u/4 now links directly to Team Update 4, for example. And if you try to go to an update that doesn't exist yet, it redirects to the updates page.

[Travis Hoffman]

Cookie Time - Pat, can you please update frclinks with the new regionals? Also, what the heck is the Queen City Regional code? I tried oh2, cin, qc, qcr, bengalsstink - no dice!

[Pat Fairbank]

Queen City is 'ohc'.
I'll try and get the new event codes up soon.

[Basel A]

Can you add old event codes? To access historic results of events that no longer exist (e.g. Great Lakes Regional). I particularly mean adding the codes to your "index" (presumably if one used the old codes, they'd work as-is). Might turn it a bit ugly though, if there's overlap, having to add years..

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

bengalsstink - no dice!

Surprised that didn't work.


Possibly MAR events as well Pat?

[DCA Fan]

Wow, so I remember finding this thread many years ago, but forgot about it. I'm so happy to see that this is still working. Thanks for all your work Pat! This is a fantastic resource!

[Pat Fairbank]

Just updated the event codes and added a stupid workaround to make "on" and "on2" work for 2012 (seems like FIRST forgot to hook them up internally or something).

Basel, I'm not sure I want to pollute the info page with old event codes (if there are any; FIRST likes to just repurpose them for new events). Any old codes should just work anyway.

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

Basel, I'm not sure I want to pollute the info page with old event codes (if there are any; FIRST likes to just repurpose them for new events). Any old codes should just work anyway.

Perfectly understandable. Since my post, I've realised that the only 3 pre-district events in Michigan (West MI, Detroit, Great Lakes) have retained their codes and, as you said, they work, which is good enough for my purposes.

This is a fantastic resource! Thank you for creating it

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank

Just updated the event codes and added a stupid workaround to make "on" and "on2" work for 2012 (seems like FIRST forgot to hook them up internally or something).

Thanks, Pat. Seriously, when everyone sees Pat next year at an event or wandering around Silicon Valley, give this man a cookie (or a brownie, or some other baked good). He deserves it and then some for all his hard work.

[Pat Fairbank]

I just fixed a bunch of stuff that was broken when the new docs and the new manual website were released. Also added:

/y
/youtube
Go to the FRC YouTube channel.

Let me know if you see anything else broken, or otherwise have any comments or suggestions.

[Bill_B]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Thanks, Pat. Seriously, when everyone sees Pat next year at an event or wandering around Silicon Valley, give this man a cookie (or a brownie, or some other baked good). He deserves it and then some for all his hard work.

Seconded, although I don't think I'd recognize him. Maybe a voucher for a cookie, etc. would be better. He probably wouldn't want a cookie that I'd been carrying around waiting to meet him for the entire event. Pat might weigh in with a wishlist? Silicon valley has such a stereotyping rep, that I might have offered something different. Or how about a Starbucks coupon?

Seriously, if frclinks is not on your browser's toolbar, you cannot really call yourself deeply involved with FRC.

[PayneTrain]

Might as well come in and say this is my homepage, except when I change to Reddit over the summer. Love this so much. Glad to put a site name to a face; never thought there would be a CD thread on FRCLinks.

Originally Posted by Bill_B

Seconded, although I don't think I'd recognize him. Maybe a voucher for a cookie, etc. would be better. He probably wouldn't want a cookie that I'd been carrying around waiting to meet him for the entire event. Pat might weigh in with a wishlist? Silicon valley has such a stereotyping rep, that I might have offered something different. Or how about a Starbucks coupon?

Seriously, if frclinks is not on your browser's toolbar, you cannot really call yourself deeply involved with FRC.

I'll see him at SVR and CVR, so I'll be sure to give him a cookie from you. And one from myself, though as a fair warning, the one from me will be of better quality.

Not to sound like a broken record, but Thanks Pat! I love the site, and makes navigating the FIRST website so much easier!

[Pat Fairbank]

FYI, FIRST has changed the event code structure for 2013 events, so if you're trying to track registration using frclinks.com/r/[event code] and the old familiar codes, it won't work.

The list of new codes is posted on the frclinks.com landing page.

[Kristian Calhoun]

Thanks for the updates, Pat. Can frclinks.com/b redirect to the new FRC blog?