Any and ALL links from Google referencing VRC (teams mainly) are broken due to the change to V5RC (https://www.robotevents.com/teams/VRC/229v). RobotEvents should redirect /teams/VRC links to /teams/V5RC.
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Same for all VEXU team links. Googling ârobotevents [vexu team ID]â now just results in a bunch of broken linksâŚ
For example,
https://www.robotevents.com/teams/VEXU/PYRO
Also, basically all Q&A links are now broken too due to the same change.
https://www.robotevents.com/VEXU/2023-2024/QA/1574
https://www.robotevents.com/VRC/2023-2024/QA/1916
I really wish this was handled better. Redirects need to be setup for every URL that has been broken by this change.
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Additionally, somewhat amusingly, this has also broken all links to the Q&A which are present in the High Stakes game manualâŚ
https://www.robotevents.com/VRC/2024-2025/QA
https://www.robotevents.com/VRC/2024-2025/QA/guidelines
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almost like this rebrand attempt was a bad ideaâŚ
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I find it weird that they didnât think this throughâŚ
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For anyone who cares, if you use an extension such as this one: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/redirector/ocgpenflpmgnfapjedencafcfakcekcd, you can add a redirect rule to change https://robotevents.com/VRC to https://robotevents.com/V5RC and https://robotevents.com/VEXU to https://robotevents.com/VURC
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A little bit of nslookup and whois shows that robotevents.com is hosted through cloudflare.com
Speaking as a sysadmin, it should be possible to set up a URL forwarding rule to redirect (or rewrite) any robotevents.com/VRC/* URL to robotevents.com/V5RC/*
In all seriousness, I expect this solution (or some variant thereof) to be implemented in the near future.
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Ideally the solution wouldâve been done and implemented before rolling out the change.
For a site with the scale it has, idk assessing the impact a change can make and how it affects users is one of those things thatâs just good engineering and customer service. Also one of the things Iâd consider just in my IT job.
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I understand why they would want to make it so each competition name is âVEX + platform + Robotics Competitionâ, but if they werenât going to be able to update all the links before making the change, I wonder if maybe it wouldâve been better to keep the links the same until they were able to make them work consistently. Iâd much rather have the abbreviations in URLâs be inconsistent than have every link on the internet that uses âVRCâ or âVEXUâ be updated.
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Yes, and they almost did that. To correctly implement this nomenclature, it would be VV5RC, not V5RC. Ah well.
Given the size difference between V5RC and the other flavors I feel like it could have been left as plain VRC.
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It looks like the IT Crowd at RECF has addressed the issue (by redirecting /VRC/ to /V5RC/)
Yes, they should have done this on the initial change, but as âoopsesâ go, this is a pretty minor oneâŚ
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