New Social Network for FIRST Robotics - Yopyip

[seg9585]

Originally Posted by TheCrayButton

Welcome to the new social network for FIRST Robotics. Its like nothing you have ever seen before.

Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKJpbZINmuc

Give it a look at http://www.yopyip.com/

I think the registration should have been a little more FIRST-specific. With everyone using nicknames and no profile or other info, it becomes difficult to know who you're talking to (student from a FIRST team? Mentor? Engineer?). Also, giving the option of linking to facebook makes the community a bit more separated since half the members will have real names and the other half nicknames

CD provides labels and team number associations, which would have been good to add at registration to at least have a profile. Also, CD tracks users in terms of post count and other things, so you can tell if your questions or comments are getting looked at and responded to by "experts".

[TheCrayButton]

Originally Posted by seg9585

I think the registration should have been a little more FIRST-specific. With everyone using nicknames and no profile or other info, it becomes difficult to know who you're talking to (student from a FIRST team? Mentor? Engineer?). Also, giving the option of linking to facebook makes the community a bit more separated since half the members will have real names and the other half nicknames

CD provides labels and team number associations, which would have been good to add at registration to at least have a profile. Also, CD tracks users in terms of post count and other things, so you can tell if your questions or comments are getting looked at and responded to by "experts".

I do agree with you. While Yopyip does not have some of those things, it does however have a clean look and feel. It also makes communicating with others in FIRST more seamless and makes it simpler to share information. I don't intend to replace Chief Delphi, but I do intend to give FIRST a better place to communicate. Thanks for the input!

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by TheCrayButton

I do agree with you. While Yopyip does not have some of those things, it does however have a clean look and feel. It also makes communicating with others in FIRST more seamless and makes it simpler to share information. I don't intend to replace Chief Delphi, but I do intend to give FIRST a better place to communicate. Thanks for the input!

If it were to replace something, it seems closer to replacing the sub-reddit then CD. Yopyip is a good place for basic chit chat or simple questions.