For the last year, if you wanted to know what YASS actually was, you had three options: read the description on our Fourthwall store page, dig through a 100+ reply Chief Delphi thread, or blindly join a Discord server with 30+ channels and over 1000 people. None of these were a great way to figure out whether you should install YAGSL on your robot.
So this offseason, we actually built a real website. yassrobotics.com now has:
- A description of every project we maintain (YAGSL, YAMS, YAMG, YALL) with links straight to docs and source
- A page for our Founding, Partner, and Legacy teams, with the their contributions, and testimonials they gave us about running YASS in competition
- This blog, so major updates and new features won’t be buried in the Chief Delphi announcement thread.
- A live feed of our social media posts
- A merch link that actually takes you to the store instead of us trying to reinvent online shopping.
Merch is still sold through Fourthwall. We’re not building our own storefront, we’re just giving it a front door that isn’t a bare Fourthwall subdomain. Buying a shirt still supports the same thing it always did: time spent building and documenting these libraries.
Everything else, the code, the Discord, the way we answer questions, none of that changes. The website finally looks like it was made by people who know how to program, instead of a placeholder that got thrown up in the middle of build season and never touched again.
Coming soon: A map of known YASS community across the globe.