Upcoming Site Changes

[synth3tk]

When you upgrade, do you have a plan to combat the ridiculous amount of spam?

[kmcclary]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

In the next few weeks, we are going to be streamlining and simplifying the ChiefDelphi.com experience. This involves combining and removing some forums that aren't used that much, removing some custom features that aren't used much, making it easier to maintain the forums -- mainly keeping them up to date and secure.

CD-Swap has already been removed .. If someone needs something / wants to give away something, they can just start a thread about it.

Oh NO! I went looking for it today to post some things on it, and found it was gone! Aieeeeee!

Serously though... IMHO, CD-Swap was one of the greatest things here, especially during the build season!... FYI - It has helped out (and saved the bacon) for MANY teams. True, it is not used much OFF season, but over the years it has been a real lifesaver for several of my teams during the build.

OOC... Was there REALLY a lot of "overhead" in running CD-Swap?
If the "auto=delete-post-upon-ageout" tool is automatic and already running, it seems to me to be an extremely high value added sub-forum, with little need for admin time overhead. It also helps keep the other sub-forums much cleaner.

Now if you aren't interested in restarting CD-Swap, can you at least create a general "Swap & Sale" sub-forum instead (possibly off of the General forum)? That will at least help keep a lot of part exchange and "Help Me find {whatever}" postings from cluttering up all of the other forums.

Thanks!
- Keith
... Very sad, to see CD-Swap go...

[MichelB]

Just throwing my opinion in but I think Twitter/Facebook integration would be awesome, and though I have never used it and wasn't aware of it untill now, CD-Swap sounds like an amazing idea. Threads on that topic are too easily 'lost in the weeds' with all the other threads.

[coalhot]

In case anyone misses CD-swap and wants to buy/sell stuff: https://www.facebook.com/groups/frcgaragesale/

There's a decent bunch of us that actually use it, picked up some good stuff recently.

[Foster]

Thanks for waiting until after Valentine's day to delete the Spotlight feature. I always think of penny Valentine's cards we gave away to classmates in school. And how appropriate is the one I'm looking at "You're so Vexy.".

[Dad1279]

I would love to see a section added to CD-Media for STL/Cad printer files.

[lynca]

Originally Posted by Dad1279

I would love to see a section added to CD-Media for STL/Cad printer files.

I second this ! Thingiverse is a great community but I would like to see a CD 3D print file section for teams to discuss in more detail about robot specific parts.

[Andrew Schreiber]

Hey Brandon, any idea when the vBulletin upgrade is gonna happen?

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Hey Brandon, any idea when the vBulletin upgrade is gonna happen?

No exact ETA .. later this summer, hopefully.

[nuclearnerd]

Is this a good place to put feature requests Brandon? I think conversations here will be a lot more civil if there's a way to (publically) show appreciation without a "me-too" post. You could use a plug-in like these: 1, 2, 3 to add "thanks" or "like/dislike" buttons (and totals) to posts.

Are you considering moving to another platform like Xenforo?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

No exact ETA .. later this summer, hopefully.

Looks like Brandon's day job has taken a lot of precedence. I stumbled back on this thread via one of the spotlights, and realized that "later this summer" has morphed into "at least one summer from now".

I'd ask for a revised ETA, but I'm betting it'll be "later this year, hopefully".

[IndySam]

Originally Posted by EricH

Looks like Brandon's day job has taken a lot of precedence. I stumbled back on this thread via one of the spotlights, and realized that "later this summer" has morphed into "at least one summer from now".

I'd ask for a revised ETA, but I'm betting it'll be "later this year, hopefully".

I think if you saw how awesome Vex tournament software was you would see he has been spending his time well.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by IndySam

I think if you saw how awesome Vex tournament software was you would see he has been spending his time well.

I don't doubt that one bit. I'm just thinking his day job is taking time away from is "making CD47-Bot and archiver actually work" job that would make the upgrade happen sooner...

[Brandon Martus]

I have been waiting on some new forum software to be finished before I do anything else. Once it is out of beta, I plan on migrating ChiefDelphi from vBulletin to Flarum. If that happens to be after FRC kickoff, I'll wait until after the season is over.

[Ben Wolsieffer]

Originally Posted by Brandon Martus

I have been waiting on some new forum software to be finished before I do anything else. Once it is out of beta, I plan on migrating ChiefDelphi from vBulletin to Flarum. If that happens to be after FRC kickoff, I'll wait until after the season is over.

Wow! That's a serious update. It looks like a significantly different format from vBulletin, but that isn't necessarily bad. I'll be looking forward to hearing more about this change.