Attention: FFR Administration and Staff

[Xiz]

Attention FFR Administration and Staff,
We will try to be as brief as possible, but what is being stated needs to be addressed for FFR’s future success:


Legal:

• The Terms of Service for FFR, and acquiring permissions from song artists is also outdated. An updated legal documentation such as the one found at https://osu.ppy.sh/p/terms would be beneficial. (Also it would open the doors to unlimited music on FFR)
• Add a page for disputes in-case of accidental infringement of Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 512
• Including a staff-only administrative email system to follow up on any (worst case scenario) disputes / C&D between FFR and a 3rd party.

Administration:

• Developers lack permission to update / generate new content without jumping through hoops and using other individuals login information in order to implement said new content.
• Administrators need to be re-looked at. As much as I love everyone on the staff team here at FFR, there are those who lack any initiative to keep FFR progressing. The admin’s who are giving it their all are overloaded due to the lack of effort from other admins.
• Communication / Updates with new and regular FFR players. More front page posts, more facebook posts, more info on what is going on in the background.

Website:

• FFR Codebase needs a rewrite to 2014 standards
• Uniformity between different areas of the website allows extensions to be made much more easily. An example of disparate interfaces is the main page and the forums. By consolidating them more seamlessly rather than keeping them segmented allows for a more natural inclusion of the forums into the main website.
• Usability and responsiveness benefits. Increasingly, devices such as smartphones and tablets are being used to browse FFR as the general population transitions to these devices for browsing the internet. By creating a single page web application, FFR will become more responsive on the aforementioned devices.
• More user friendly accessibility to website / contents. This includes the main page, it’s navigation bar, and the side panels. As it stands currently, most of the user interface features (including the helpful ones such as current events) are simply bolted on. They don’t appear to be thoughtfully integrated into the rest of the interface, including the primary navigation bar. Trimming out some less frequently used features and increasing the prominence of more frequently used features

There have been a few amazing and wonderful updates thanks to those working hard to advance FFR, however no there is no initiative by higher-up staff to make anything change. We would like to open up this thread for debate and reach some sort of agreement to progress. We are saying this because we care. Sorry, and thank you.

~ Fission / Xiz

*We will be updating this list accordingly, and please feel free to give feedback on your thoughts.