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[PayneTrain]

Forums are designed to encourage people posting collected, coherent discussion to fuel the discourse of a community over a long period of time, also providing a place to be referenced in the future for ideas and a cornerstone of a community's history. Chief Delphi is a slice of FIRSTthropology, or something, like our own little town hall. A chatroom doesn't have any of these benefits and comes with drawbacks that create word vomit and provide nothing of use to the community long-term. There are "chatroom opportunities" through other outlets with FIRSTers, be it webstreams or Facebook messaging, but I don't think a chatroom here is in the best interests of the community. It's like putting a middle school cafeteria in a courthouse.

Of course I'm not an admin, so this opinion is worth about as much as a disco record or AOL Free Trail CD.

[synth3tk]

Originally Posted by PayneTrain

or AOL Free Trail CD.

What? You're kidding me. Those things are very useful as art.

[synth3tk]

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

[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.