New FIRST community website

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by Ivan Malik

*By dated I don't mean looks or performance-wise, I mean definition and feature-wise.

I think the looks are outdated. There, I said it. Performance-wise, it works extremely smooth. Brandon has definitely done a good job keeping the server in top-notch form.

The main thing is that Brandon Martus is basically the only dev (as far as I know), with others designated as admins and mods. And Brandon has been pretty busy lately.

In reality, the site could use a software upgrade, which would give us access to more plugins/options. This site is used by a ton of people, so I'm sure that any change to any part of the stack must be carefully planned (hardware update, server config, template style, etc).

It would be really nice to try and make CD a more well-rounded resource, instead of trying to spread the community thin. A lot of well-meaning sites have popped up, but in the end, most either die off or limp on. CD and TBA, meanwhile, are pretty much invincible. There's got to be a way to get this going forward.

I've setup the same version of vB on my VPS. Maybe I can get Brandon to send me a copy of the template and whatever plugins are used so we can work from there and build it up. I'm willing to allow others to contribute, too. Upgrade it to 3.8.x then work on styles, building in tutorial systems, etc. I'm sure there may even be a way to have it use GitHub so anyone else with a vB installation can work on separate features.