Upcoming Site Changes

[Brandon Martus]

How many people remember this version of ChiefDelphi.com from 1998?



The site started out over 15 years ago providing a system for the FIRST community to discuss anything and everything about their experience in FRC. Many things have changed since then -- new social media and online community sites Facebook, Google, Twitter, Flickr, etc., have all come along.

In the next few weeks, we are going to be streamlining and simplifying the ChiefDelphi.com experience. This involves combining and removing some forums that aren't used that much, removing some custom features that aren't used much, making it easier to maintain the forums -- mainly keeping them up to date and secure.

CD-Swap has already been removed .. If someone needs something / wants to give away something, they can just start a thread about it.

CD-Events was never really completed or used to its full potential, and will be removed. The vBulletin calendar functionality will remain, though.

Unsung FIRST Heroes -- there have been many attempts to revive this; and with the addition of the Woodie Flowers Finalist Award at the regional level, it has been even more difficult to get started again. This, along with the special WFA area, will be removed as well.

Spotlights - There are a bunch of great quotes in here, but if you look through the thousands of quotes there are a lot of inside jokes and random things that really start to outweigh the useful quotes. These will also be removed.

CD-Media, FRC-Spy, CD-Spy will remain as-is, for now.

We know some people will be upset that these features are being removed, but these changes will help simplify the maintenance of the site and allow everyone to focus on what brought everyone to this site many years ago: the discussion. Once these changes have been made, this will allow us to easily upgrade vBulletin which has some new features which may be useful and provide other valuable features (Facebook/Twitter integration, blogs, groups, etc.).