Poll: Inspire Blog

[ATannahill]

Originally Posted by vhcook

The URL for the new FIRST website isn't country specific. This is good.

The website is pretty. Also good, but not really a priority for me.

I have a hard time finding the things I'm looking for (event schedules, team information), and when/if I do find it, the new formatting makes it harder to use. This is bad.

I run into a lot of broken links or content that only exists on the old site archive. This is also bad.

It takes a lot of clicks to get to things that I have already found (manual, FRC Blog) if I haven't bookmarked them. This is annoying and makes me look for content elsewhere first.

In spite of spending a lot of time wrestling with the site, I haven't discovered new content like this Inspire Blog unless someone who has already found it posts a link somewhere I'm looking (like here). This, I suspect, defeats the point of the redesign.

Based on your poll results, I suspect that my experience and judgement of the new site design is not atypical in the experienced community, particularly with regard to my last point.

I know this is getting a bit off topic, but I feel this is a great place to plug my favorite community built FIRST resource, frclinks.com by Pat Fairbank.

frclinks.com/b goes to Frank's blog
frclinks.com/u goes to the manual and team updates
frclinks.com/t/#### goes to that team's page
frclinks.com/e/CODE goes to the teams registered for the event code (codes are listed at frclinks.com)
frclinks.com/e/a/CODE goes to the award for the event
frclinks.com/e/r/CODE goes to the team rankings for the event
frclinks.com/e/m/CODE goes to the match results for the event