Suggest linking to to government eCFR site instead of commercial eCFR site

[brittag]

Suggestion:

On https://www.fec.gov/legal-resources/regulations/ at right under "Other Formats", there's a link to "eCFR" that goes to https://gov.ecfr.io/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=de9b9ecf6ecae8b93dcb648941de180c&mc=true&tpl=/ecfrbrowse/Title11/11cfrv1_02.tpl

ecfr.io is a commercial site with ads on the bottom of the page. I would suggest instead linking to the official government e-CFR site: https://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?SID=b84fc4f2bb3ea03170784e83943daf19&mc=true&tpl=/ecfrbrowse/Title11/11tab_02.tpl

Optional question:

Also, hi! I'm a former 18F employee who probably met some of you while I was working on cloud.gov, and I'm now a federal contractor working on a version of eRegs for the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services. We're curious why your version of eRegs no longer has supplementary material in the sidebar - did you decide that wasn't the best way to maintain that kind of information for your readers?

[dorothyyeager]

Thanks @brittag - great catch and inadvertent error on our part. We have updated that link.

I'm looking into your question.

[PaulClark2]

@brittag See #203. We weren't able to include the supplemental information from a technical standpoint, the same way we were not able to show a timeline of regulations changes. Thanks @dorothyyeager for finding this old issue.

[PaulClark2]

A little bit more, Timeline issue : #42. I'm having trouble finding other GitHub issues about the right side of eRegs. Please feel free to search the repository.

[dorothyyeager]

We'll close this now since we've updated the link to eCFR and linked issues answering the optional question.

[brittag]

Thank you, appreciate the explanation!

[brittag]

Also, as we reviewed FEC eRegs to learn from it, my coworker noticed that the "help" sidebar option still notes some of the removed features/buttons:

I'm not sure we would have noticed this as ordinary readers, just sharing in case helpful for you.

[dorothyyeager]

Thanks @brittag - will open a separate ticket for this item.