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

[Bkeeneykid]

http://www.firstinspires.org/brand

[*Rachelle*]

Originally Posted by Bkeeneykid

http://www.firstinspires.org/brand

Thank you, I don't know why we couldn't find that last night.

[cadandcookies]

Originally Posted by *Rachelle*

Thank you, I don't know why we couldn't find that last night.

For some reason I think it might have to do with the plethora of both structural and technical issues mentioned in this thread.

[Tim Sharp]

I have been unable to locate the "Stronghold" graphic. Does anyone know if it has been released yet? If so, where?

[sanddrag]

Visually, the FRC calendar page at http://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc/calendar is not as functional as the old one. The new one has too much white space and requires too much scrolling. It doesn't show enough on my screen at one time without scrolling.

Also, the entire site is in dire need of "breadcrumbs" across the top, that shows you where you came from and how you got to where you are, with clickable links that take you back to a higher level. The old site had this in a nice maroon colored bar at the top. See: http://archive.usfirst.org/roboticsp.../calendar/list

To not have that functionality on the new site is a big downgrade in my opinion.

One example of a place that I think does it pretty well is the NewEgg website.

[rich2202]

Originally Posted by ebarker

The event search just plain useless compared to the old website.. The event list on the old website is a billion times better.

You cannot see all events.

You cannot even see all the events within a district.

To an outsider looking at the event list, what was one of the worlds largest competitions just became tiny.

And when you look at an event, you can see the team list, but you can no longer go to their website.......

need to put this on the site somewhere https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso

arrrrgh, this is frustrating beyond words......

Amen. The old site for this was much better.
http://archive.firstinspires.org/rob...egional-events

I liked the ability to see all events sorted by week.

Why the 100 mile limit? We do an overnight trip to a 2nd regional, and are willing to go 500+ miles if it is the right week. Also, being in the Midwest, a 100 miles as the crow flies could be 200+ miles as the car drives around one of the Great Lakes.

[XaulZan11]

Very surprised to see there is no link to the webcast or mention of the kickoff on the home page of the FIRST webpage.

[Omar]

There is not a clear starting point for rookie teams or those new to FRC to find information about the control system.

Under "Game and Season" there needs to be a "Start Here" or "What to do First"

I visited 3 rookie teams and one 2nd year veteran team in my area this past week after the kickoff and not one person at these teams knew about the "Getting Started with the 2016 Control System" from WPI. There is no mentioning of it at a high level. You must already know its name to be able to search for and find it.

You try it! Pretend you are a rookie and try to find help on what you should do, step by step, to set up your control system starting at
http://www.firstinspires.org/robotic...ame-and-season

It is not under “Manuals / Game Q & A”
It is not under “Kit of Parts” (This is where it was located on the OLD usfirst.org web site)
It is not under "Technical Resources"
You can find it under “Resource Library”. But down 3 pages pass all the Position Summary for the volunteer jobs at the competition.

Some of the team member said they had looked at Resource Library but “there are too many documents”

Remember we were all a rookie once.

We need something that the rookie teams can find very easy that gets them started without them having to already know about it.

[Michael Hill]

"Download latest copy of Q&A" link doesn't work.

https://frc-qa.firstinspires.org/Questions.php

[sanddrag]

On this page ( http://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc/awards ) there are two issues:

1. The link to Woodie Flowers FInalist Award Winners at the bottom of this page takes you to a page that does not list any Woodie Flowers Finalist Award winners.
2. There should be a link on this page to the awards manual, and there is not.

Also, generally, I'm not a fan of many pages containing main navigation links to the right side of the content. It's counter intuitive to the English language (and many others) which are read from left to right, and many software workflows that go from left to right.

[Christopher149]

The Q&A still has the old favicon.

[sanddrag]

If someone just links you to any page such as this one, the "Back to Search" button does nothing at all, if you didn't come from a "search" on their site.

Team pages do not indicate team sponsors like the old site used to.

The 500 character limit on the Q/A system is pretty tight to phrase certain questions well.