What's wrong with the new FIRST website - a running list

[Beaker]

A few days ago, I was looking at some of the FIRST scholarships the other day, and it looks like they removed the checkbox filters that used to be off to the side when searching for a specific type of scholarship. That meant I would have had to scroll through many pages of scholarships to find one that would be "usable for all schools."

Luckily, I did not need to.

[Bkeeneykid]

The resource library seems like a great idea, but the way some of the items show up is just screwy. For example, the Standard Alignment Map shows up as a image. When I click the usually useful download or preview buttons it shows just picture of the spreadsheet. To actually download the file, you have to click the link at the top of the page that you can only get to by clicking on something that doesn't look like a hyperlink. And then that text doesn't say download or any other easy way to tell that it's how you download it. I think this might just be an isolated example though...

[ebarker]

Originally Posted by Bkeeneykid

The resource library seems like a great idea, but the way some of the items show up is just screwy. For example, the Standard Alignment Map shows up as a image. When I click the usually useful download or preview buttons it shows just picture of the spreadsheet. To actually download the file, you have to click the link at the top of the page that you can only get to by clicking on something that doesn't look like a hyperlink. And then that text doesn't say download or any other easy way to tell that it's how you download it. I think this might just be an isolated example though...

I don't think the person that created the article loaded it or understood it correctly.

If you click "FIRST Robotics Competition Standard Alignment Map" - the blue text you will get the spreadsheet, which is what should have happened if you click the download or view links under the 'image icon'. The items you get by clicking the links right now is some JPG of something that seems useless.

How do you get to the curator so they can fix this ??

[snoman]

Is there a good link for scholarship search. Can't seem to find it. The one I found just has a printable brochure.

[ebarker]

Originally Posted by snoman

Is there a good link for scholarship search. Can't seem to find it. The one I found just has a printable brochure.

Here is the 'site map'

On the map is the scholarship page then keep scrolling down until you eventually see the stuff, just keep scrolling.

http://www.firstinspires.org/scholarships will also get you there.

[DaveL]

Originally Posted by D.gimon

Do we really need a "Drive in" movie (for you older folks like me) playing in the background?

Dan

1. The images in the carousel have too much motion and camera movement.
It makes me ill when trying to find a link. (+1 Drive in Movie).
The carousel images are too large.
Also the carousel should have a pause button.

2. Navigation drop down is transparent and thus has a small amount of contrast, which makes it hard to read. (not accessible for low vision users)

3. The "For Teams" landing page looks the same for each age group. It should have some noticeable differences in addition to the title.
Example: I found myself on the wrong TIMS page, but didn't realize this until trying to sign in.

4. Since I only support FRC, I would rather have a dedicated, stationary navigation link with the title "FRC".
Even better, the site would remember me and my preferences.

5. Organization of the site and navigation titles.
For example: "For Teams" is meaningless as all content is for a team.
A better title might be "Team Management". I also miss quick access to technical resources.

Dave
a UX Designer

[Navid Shafa]

Event data can't be scraped/pasted with formatting into Excel.

[techboi]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

Event data can't be scraped/pasted with formatting into Excel.

I just noticed this earlier today, it looks like they've updated their match scores pages, it shows some event info now that might help you:
http://frc-events.usfirst.org/2015/ARCHIMEDES

and

http://frc-events.usfirst.org/2015/A...qualifications

They also published an API a while back:
http://archive.usfirst.org/roboticsp...ce-for-FMS-API

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by techboi

I just noticed this earlier today, it looks like they've updated their match scores pages, it shows some event info now that might help you:
http://frc-events.usfirst.org/2015/ARCHIMEDES

and

http://frc-events.usfirst.org/2015/A...qualifications

They also published an API a while back:
http://archive.usfirst.org/roboticsp...ce-for-FMS-API

Thank you, but this information is a bit outdated. The 2016 API will be helpful when it gets released.

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by techboi

They also published an API a while back:
http://archive.usfirst.org/roboticsp...ce-for-FMS-API

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

Event data can't be scraped/pasted with formatting into Excel.

If you don't have/don't want a key for the FRCAPI, you can also use the TBA API.

@Navid, if you want help with getting data, PM me and I'd be happy to give a hand writing a Google Apps script to generate whatever spreadsheets you need.

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by plnyyanks

If you don't have/don't want a key for the FRCAPI, you can also use the TBA API.

@Navid, if you want help with getting data, PM me and I'd be happy to give a hand writing a Google Apps script to generate whatever spreadsheets you need.

Last I heard TBA and FRClinks were still pointing toward the old domain's event pages? I'm looking to pull FIRSTinspires data. There has been inconsistency between the two at times. If that's not the case, I'll gladly work with TBA's API.

Thanks!

[plnyyanks]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

Last I heard TBA and FRClinks were still pointing toward the old domain's event pages? I'm looking to pull FIRSTinspires data. There has been inconsistency between the two at times. If that's not the case, I'll gladly work with TBA's API.

Thanks!

We flipped a switch last week to feed TBA 100% off the FRCAPI (which is finally populated for 2016), so the data should be identical to the firstinspires pages. If you find any discrepancies, let me know and I'll get them fixed.

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by plnyyanks

We flipped a switch last week to feed TBA 100% off the FRCAPI (which is finally populated for 2016), so the data should be identical to the firstinspires pages. If you find any discrepancies, let me know and I'll get them fixed.

Awesome, thank you.

[sanddrag]

Also, all the Championship information is still 2015. They don't even have the dates up for 2016. Given that it's just over 4 months away and hotel reservations have already opened, it seems like they should get on this pretty soon.

[*Rachelle*]

While we are on the subject, I have tried to find the new logos for download (the high res ones, they have zip files for the old logos on the old site), are they not on there yet or have I not looked in the right places?

Thank you!