New PDGA website

[damonshort]

Must have finally been reworked in the last couple of days. Graphically it's much better. Interesting that as far as I can tell, the forums are gone. Maybe shot to be put out of its misery, or maybe I just can't find the link.

[pickax]

The plan is to have the forums back in a few weeks even though they are a ghost town. There is a lot of good historical info there, so it would be a shame to lose them entirely.

[Dan Michler]

Just noticed the new web site this morning.  I like the spreadsheet format when searching for statistics.  However, I think they should have a number column on the far left, or at least display the number of records being viewed (e.g., displaying 25-49).  On the old website, you could filter by Illinois Ams and it would immediately tell you how many Ams there were in IL.

Overall, seems like an improvement, but not as good as I think it should be.  The course directory was freezing up and moving incredibly slow.  It still seems horrible.  I don't know why they don't just have a link to DGCR.  It already has everything you'd want in a course directory.  Why try to re-invent the wheel?

[CEValkyrie]

It's ok. IHas a better look that's for sure.

I agree with Dan. DGCR is pretty much the disc golf site now. Too bad the PDGA let that idea get away. I personally think they should make the owner an offer he can't refuse and purchase it.

[pickax]

The PDGA lost out on this for two reasons:
- The huge clampdown on speech in the forums (though I understand them wanting to react to the few that just liked bullying others). Limiting it to just PDGA members as the final nail in the coffin. Even lately the Ask Dave Dunipace thread was dead.
- The backend of the web site was way behind the times and they couldn't get it to the point the needed to fast enough. I think it is just now getting to the point where DGCR and the PDGA could enter into a sharing agreement from a technical perspective, but I don't know if it is a priority. It's a shame since DGCR pretty much seeded their database by scraping the PDGA course directory.

[damonshort]

The plan is to have the forums back in a few weeks even though they are a ghost town. There is a lot of good historical info there, so it would be a shame to lose them entirely.

Yeah, I sent an email inquiry about this on Saturday and heard back from Steve Ganz in about 15 minutes. (what you said)
So that's something.

[pickax]

The PDGA forums are back online.

[damonshort]

not that it's a big deal, but I don't see a link.

[pickax]

http://discussion.pdga.com/discussion/index.php