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8 years ago
French Southern Territories

"Is someone too lazy to write the script?" You are rude, they are doing their best to provide the best quality they can deliver. This is way better than any previous speedrun site that existed (pbtracker ...). The message feature is just a detail; how important is it ? Not that much. People often have at least Twitter or Twitch; so it's a minor problem.

Gelderland, Netherlands

There is still the speedrun.com IRC channel on the speedrunslive server

xDrHellx likes this
Virginia, USA

@darthbuckethead

Go learn how to program and build a better page. Create your own "simple" functions and provide them free to the world. How much of a dick do you have to be to feel as entitled as you sound. Get off your high horse.

xDrHellx likes this

"how important is it ? Not that much."

While I think darthbuckethead has chosen the wrong words and sounds rude I heavily disagree with you PackSciences. A messaging system here on speedrun.com would be very important to me and would make my life as moderator much easier. Yes, twitter and twitch exist but I have experienced in the past that people tend to overlook twitch/twitter messages. Nevertheless this does not justify the wording darthbuckethead has gone with.

BlueInfinity22, Valyssa0 and 2 others like this
Vienna, Austria

I kinda see it like PLD as well. The problem with Twitter is, you can't use PM's if they don't follow you, and sending a tweet offically to them is ... meh. Especially if the person doesn't watch their TL often. Then the Twitch-PMs are not watched by the most that often at all. I tried to get some Runners of a Game together for ESA. One answered like 2 weeks later, one didn't even see it till I tweeted on him (I only found his Twitter because of heavy research) and the other was on skype already, so no problem with that. But in general, mostly small streamers don't take a look at the PMs often at all, since ... who's gonna send them anyways? Happens to me as well.

A message system would be nice and easy to access for the most, since IRC is srsly outdated. I mean come on guys, it's not 2002 anymore O.o And to get people in Discord, Skype or wherever you first need to contact them anyways so it would be really nice to have it.

pld likes this
French Southern Territories

Yes, Speedrun.com messaging feature could be cool. However, if you compare it to previous sites that existed; well speedrun.com is by far the smartest. Also, when I see someone saying "So what is the problem? Is someone too lazy to write the script?", I am a bit shocked; like it's a feature that's planned already. Tthey probably have better things to do.

Victoria, Australia
stoot
He/Him, They/Them
7 years ago

How dare these volunteers not donate more of their time.