FIRST Website

[Joel J]

I don't like the new website. I thought I would get used to it: no dice.

I say it gets a 70-75, based on that scale.

[boy_scout72688]

using the criteria from last years manual, I could see the site getting an 85/100.
I looked at that information and that is what I felt. Anyone want to agree?

[Cory]

I'd give it a 50.

[Pavan Dave]

At first I thought it was great but it is very laggy and has been very slow recently atleast for me and I have a Cable Modem.

Pavan.

[Joe Matt]

Originally Posted by DeepWater

Probably! I tend to miss a lot of boats. This tends to be a problem because I am usually the boat operator! Anyway, it still just seems to me that FIRST is alienating their existing customers trying to attract new customers. I don’t see why at the very least they couldn’t leave their old site up for the added content and put a link to it on the new site somewhere until they get the new site completed. My worry is that this IS the completed new site and they are not actively updating it with new “old” content which is of great value to both new and veteran teams. I have been waiting but haven’t seen any significant changes since the new site went live. FIRST’s “we will consider it” response just isn’t leaving me with a warm and fuzzy feeling. Hopefully I’m worried for no reason.

I agree. This site is for those with check books, free time to mentor or help with regionals, or the press.

I want a unified site for FRC, FVC, and FLL that cuts through all the PR BS and stuff (seriously, a video for us on Gracious Professionalism?) that's not aimed at us and a more direct, stripped down site for accessing information, stats, and other things.

[hallk]

The new site is meant for new people.
That being said I'm not a big fan of the new layout. It seems like there are too many menus to go through to get to what you want. I do like how it is easy to access the mass email archives. I also have a hard time finding some more technical things while it is easier to find documents that might be nice to if you are interested in forming a team.

[Yohan]

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Just some quick links to past regional events, since people seem to regret the sudden demise of many of the history pages. Hopefully, this will help teams scouting other teams through their past records. Although you shouldn't click any of the links in the history pages, as most are broken.


The rankings of the Qualifying Matches for Silicon Valley Regional in the FRC in 2006.
http://www2.usfirst.org/2006comp/Eve.../rankings.html

If you want to view the ranking from previous years or other regionals then change the bolded:
http://www2.usfirst.org/2006comp/Events/SJ/rankings.html
TO
http://www2.usfirst.org/2005comp/Events/SC/rankings.html

You just need to know the code for the different regionals. Some include for the 2006 Regionals:
AZ: Arizona Regional
SAC: Davis Sacramento Regional
CA: Southern California Regional
SC: Palmetto Regional
SJ: Silicon Valley Regional
CO: Colorado Regional
CT: UTC New England Regional
FL: Florida Regional
GA: Peachtree Regional
IL: Midwest Regional
...and so on.

To help find the area code for the regionals I used the very useful regional index,
https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?page=eventsearch&menu=true&rcl=true&ar ea=&event_type=ALL
and moused over the name of my regional revealing the area code.

For example when I clicked the Arizona Regional, it redirected me to,
https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index.lasso?event_type=FRC#AZ
which reveals the area code. However some regionals did not carry over their previous year's code and will not work...


Another useful page is the Awards Page.
Below are the teams and/or people who won awards during the Silicon Valley Regional in the FRC in 2006.
http://www2.usfirst.org/2006comp/Events/SJ/awards.html

Just follow the steps stated above to find the different regionals and years by changing the bolded.
http://www2.usfirst.org/2006comp/Events/SJ/awards.html


And similarly, the Elimination Matches Page.
http://www2.usfirst.org/2006comp/Events/SJ/matches.html
Once again, use the steps above to find different regionals and years...


If any of this was stated previously, I apologize for not searching through this thread more thoroughly, if not, enjoy!
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[artdutra04]

You can find almost all of the content (including game manuals, rankings, match results, etc.) from the old FIRST website here in the Internet Archive:

http://web.archive.org/web/*sr_1nr_1....usfirst.org/*

[JBotAlan]

Originally Posted by Joe Matt

I want a unified site for FRC, FVC, and FLL that cuts through all the PR BS and stuff (seriously, a video for us on Gracious Professionalism?) that's not aimed at us and a more direct, stripped down site for accessing information, stats, and other things.

I believe that the manual PDFs are copyrighted, so we can't host them on our own servers, but I am seriously considering re-indexing what they have. (also might ask permission to mirror the PDFs, not sure if they will grant it)

I mean, if we don't like what they are doing with the site (which I don't--the old design was hard to navigate, the new design is horrible) we can do something about it.

I do wish the menus weren't javascript. Blech.

JBot

[Nate Laverdure]

USFIRST.org is down as of 3:47pm eastern time, 3/7/07.

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[team_1373]

still down

5 pm eastern time

[Nate Laverdure]

Site is up as of 6:18pm eastern time.