The FIRST Alliance - A whole new way to play

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by GGCO

As far as sustainability goes, we're going to implement ads soon to help recoup our costs. Secondly, we're not using a free service for hosting or our domain name or anything like that. We're paying for it just like anyone else. If you mean our design looks cheap that's one thing, but I don't know how by just looking at the site it gives you a feeling of shoddy work.

Your product is your API, how do you put ads in an API?

[GGCO]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Your product is your API, how do you put ads in an API?

Ads on the site. Sorry for the confusion.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by GGCO

Ads on the site. Sorry for the confusion.

No confusion. You have stated numerous times that the API is your differentiator, this means that it will probably be your biggest cost. People like myself will be consuming your API and never hitting your website so I will never be generating revenue for you but I WILL be generating costs for you. Do you think, based on your current traffic, you will be seeing enough web traffic to cover your costs? I don't want to know numbers I just want to make sure you've considered this possibility.

TL;DR - How do you make sure that people like I are not just cost generators for you without creating API limits and forcing me to pay for more use?

[mobilegamer999]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

No confusion. You have stated numerous times that the API is your differentiator, this means that it will probably be your biggest cost. People like myself will be consuming your API and never hitting your website so I will never be generating revenue for you but I WILL be generating costs for you. Do you think, based on your current traffic, you will be seeing enough web traffic to cover your costs? I don't want to know numbers I just want to make sure you've considered this possibility.

TL;DR - How do you make sure that people like I are not just cost generators for you without creating API limits and forcing me to pay for more use?

I do feel that we get enough web traffic that ads would be a sufficient revenue source to support the website.

[Nemo]

I am trying to use TFA or TBA to follow the championship, and it would be really nice if either site would put the teams' championship schedules on the team pages before the event ends. Right now the team pages only have tabs for their district and regional events.

[mobilegamer999]

Originally Posted by Nemo

I am trying to use TFA or TBA to follow the championship, and it would be really nice if either site would put the teams' championship schedules on the team pages before the event ends. Right now the team pages only have tabs for their district and regional events.

There you go, got that fixed for you on TFA.

[Nemo]

Originally Posted by mobilegamer999

There you go, got that fixed for you on TFA.

That was fast!

[flippy147852]

Can you space out the bars for the divisional Event Stats graphs? they are really smushed together and the numbers are hard to read

[GGCO]

Originally Posted by flippy147852

Can you space out the bars for the divisional Event Stats graphs? they are really smushed together and the numbers are hard to read

Hey Flippy,

We're aware of that usability issue and we'll try to do something about it when we release the next set of fixes for the site. Really appreciate the screenshot btw. It always makes our jobs easier. Have a good competition!

- Grant

[kmehta]

Originally Posted by mobilegamer999

Why not just build upon TBA's codebase?
The main reason is that its not THAT simple, TBA would not let some random outsider start modifying their code and pushing it live to the website. Even if they let us help them with their code, every time more people are added to a project, the slower changes become and the less often changes can be made.

Actually you can just fork the github repository and join the mailing list if you want to start helping TBA.