United StatesYou're able to run it regardless of it being on the leaderboard so feel free to give it a go.
The srcom forums are a very small subset of the community and mostly the same dozen or so folks filtering in and out. Definitely not the whole community- it's not a very conducive place for chatting.
Most discussion is game specific and happens in Discords for each game/series, which you can find on the game's leaderboard in most cases if it exists. Join for games you're learning or interested in. There's a general one for this site as well, which your mileage may vary for.
Besides that, a lot of talking and hanging out happens in streams while runners are doing attempts honestly. I met folks initially in the community just by watching runners from online marathons and people that I ran a game in common with. There's not really much of a problem to fix, think you may just be looking in the wrong place right now.
The running list of embed runs is pretty useful as is the sorting by game- only small issue for me is the edit issue above where it makes you do a second unnecessary click if you want to edit a run. Also small change that would be nice is the time displaying next to the 'claims to be x place' more prominently at the top instead of with the rest of the tags.
What kinds of weird dreams have you all been having lately? Generally I feel like I have a lot of dreams but most of them don't stick in my head or I don't write them down.
I had a dream about working at a hospital that was actually a crime front that felt like it went on for forever but I remember like none of the details.
I think someone mentioned before dreaming about speedrunning but I don't think that's ever happened to me.
I don't think folks realize how many fake runs, even jokingly fake runs, the Minecraft mods must have to go through every time they open up their queue. The joke gets old very fast.
https://www.speedrun.com/speedrunning/thread/6tgel
Ask in the Minecraft forums attached to their specific game page for the best chance of getting answers.
Most of the time run rejections are just non-malicious mistakes and not that serious of an issue worth taking such a intense approach on. Just folks missing a rule, not showing the whole run, or too low quality of a recording. Less about not trusting the player and more about holding everyone to the same standard. Rejected runs don't appear for other people if they go on your profile so it's really just a personal choice if you still want it there.
Contact mods for the game if they are active, though usually it is trusted, active members of the community that are chosen. Otherwise use the Support Hub if they are inactive, but make sure to read the rules and requirements found there: https://www.speedrun.com/knowledgebase/supporthub
It's on Switch and PC but the runs are the same besides loads.
This may be a request better handled in private messages with a full mod, rather than publicly if you want a response from them. In the end there is a lot of self policing since the speedrunning community is really a lot of smaller communities and this is mainly just a repository for leaderboards, but the site does issue bans for excessive harassment on/off the site.
Best of luck resolving this, regardless.
This is a bit of a tangent but since people are already talking about it: I think the rule should be that categories shouldn't include PVP, even if the game primarily does. If people want to do runs against bots or through tutorials of online PVP games, who cares honestly? People have fun in different ways and even if I find those runs a little silly, it's potentially someone's introduction into speedrunning and they're not hurting anyone.
Now games definitely don't need a leaderboard on here to be run but: with these past games with not an insignificant amount of runners getting rejected (hundreds in some cases), where many have never speedrun before, it puts a really bad taste in their mouth and tells them that they're not welcome on the site, or that the speedrunning community is generally elitist.
Bit confused about the message above and the connection between PVP games getting accepted and "evey game just becoming inundated with pointless, arbitrary and superfluous categories for WRs". This already happens; sometimes people make a bunch of dumb categories and they run it and call WR and nobody cares. The world continues to rotate. The site manages to survive. Speedrunning is a lot more than WRs.
Updates are happening more, and I appreciate some of the future updates that seem to be in the works, but the current ones have made a lot of questionable changes that just feel awkward. I'm still a bit baffled by the user profile changes, even if I'm hopeful for future things.
Cyberpunk 2077 has been speedrun many times, to answer your question about games needing to be bug free.
But generally people can run on whatever platform they want. Even if it isn't as stable, people usually don't have the luxury of choosing between every console and just play on whatever they have or enjoy.
