Hey runners! Today we have two more announcements to make: one we're very excited about and one we didn't want to make. I'll start with the good one: main leaderboard renovations! We will be rolling out the updated leaderboard setup in the span of the next few days! We'll still have to move some runs around - due to SRC limitations, so the leaderboard is going to look a bit messy - however, don't worry, it's gonna look great again after the changes are applied! What are the renovations, you may ask? I'll give you a short rundown: categories and rules touch-up. Categories will look cleaner and easier to navigate (see CE individual levels section for an example), as well as the internal structure being more flexible, which will allow for any potential future changes to happen more easily. Each subcategory will have its own set of rules, relevant only to that specific section, which will allow for better readability and hopefully less confusion and clutter when you click on the rules for that subcategory. The rules themselves are getting a rewrite so that they're more understandable for people. This is NOT a rule change, it's just to make them easier to read and understand. However, one change will happen: Glitchless will no longer allow for duping of items or bags because that doesn't make any sense to have in there, as well as the co-op slowmotion penalty will now be less strict - from 5 seconds to 3. Runs that had a penalty applied to them will be retimed after all the changes are applied. We hope you will enjoy these renovations, as they were not easy to achieve!

Now onto the unfortunate part of this... As you may know, the former leaderboard moderator Nasuper - following his removal from the leaderboard moderation status - has been engaging into incredibly harmful actions for the past few months. That includes: continuous stalking, harassment, and slander of speedrun.com staff, multiple pd2 runners (including members of the new moderation team), attempts to sabotage the leaderboards prior to his removal, hate speech and many more instances of bigotry. Our moderation team obviously does not endorse such behaviour from anyone. With a heavy heart and after a lot of discussion internally a decision has been made to remove any presence of that person from the leaderboards, as there is absolutely no place for such people within this community. Their co-op runs will have their name and video removed, however the time will be kept to honour the other runners that participated in those runs, as they are not to blame and deserve their times to remain; their solo runs will be completely removed. This was not an easy path to take, as we think that preserving the speedrun history is incredibly important, however we strive to keep this community healthy, friendly, and fun for everyone, so we decided to act on the matter and take any attention away from this person, as such bad actors deserve no recognition and spotlight. We hope that such decision will be taken well by the rest of the community and will serve as an example. At the end of the day we're all human and everyone deserves to be treated as a normal person, regardless of their race, gender, sexuality or world views.