[quote=Valeriaaa_CHAN]that I treat SRDC more like a social media thing[/quote] Same Following users has been requested a lot, I'm not sure if it'll be added or not but having a follower and following count would probably turn into a competition of who has the most
I somewhat agree with the idea that it will inevitably become a competition and it's a hugely unnecessary feature when other site issues persist, besides unless it's a totally new direction Elo is taking I don't consider sr.c to be a form of social media in any large sense, it's leaderboards and resources, with a forum, and whilst the addition of run comments make the site seem more sociable, I reckon followers will feel completely out of place when if such a thing were included from day one, it would more accurately reflect notable runners, and now it would be a bit of a mess.
The site is supposed to be a leaderboard hosting site, not a social media site. People mostly communicate using discord anyway, so there isn’t a need for following and friends here.
I don't understand the claims that getting notifications when particular people have submitted a new run would turn this site into a social media site.
[quote=MagikBased]I don't understand the claims that getting notifications when particular people have submitted a new run would turn this site into a social media site.[/quote] this [quote=SioN] there is no reason to have a follow system thingie on this site when others exist. check their youtube to see new runs or if they have twitter follow them there[/quote] There is no reason to have a leaderboard on this site when google sheets exist, I guess. And for all the people who don't even upload their pbs to Youtube and submit der Twitch vods, the right thing to do is to regularly check 20 people's Twitch pages, just to see if they pb'd by any chance. Why would you be so adamantly against a thing that would be optional. Following games is already optional, why are people so bothered by following specific people. It sounds piss easy to implement and very low footprint overall.
[quote=YUMmy_Bacon5] but having a follower and following count would probably turn into a competition of who has the most
[quote="Jubilee"]if you want to see someone's runs so much, you can always type their username into the search bar, click it, and scroll down to see their runs, which are usually sorted chronologically.[/quote] That's exactly the point though. All of that information is already available, we're just asking for a quality of life update that let's the site do that for us automatically.
These are the last 3 notification's I have under my notification button BlueMetal beat the WR in Mega Man Legends - Any% Easy - Nintendo 64. The new WR is 34m 15s · 1 day ago JayHobs beat the WR in Destroy All Humans! (2020) - 100% - PC. The new WR is 3h 01m 39s · 1 day ago shox beat the WR in StarCraft: Brood War - Terran 03: Ruins of Tarsonis: Any%. The new WR is 5m 27s · 1 day ago
I simply don't understand the idea that having something like ThatGuyYouFollowed submitted a new PB in ThisGame - Any% - PC. Their new PB is 5m 12s - 1 day ago also in my notifications would be somehow some be all that different than what we have now, or somehow be so transformative to the site that it now seen as a social media website.
[quote=Jubilee]visible or not, following will be exploited some way or another, including bots, alt accounts, spam threads, and an overall toxic competition, when the actual competition should be beating games fast.[/quote] I genuinely fail to see the mechanism that leads to this being exploited. If I personally have to press the button to follow a person, just as it is with following games right now, how can that be exploited with bots or anything? What exploit is there to be had to begin with. Even if the follower count were visible, which not a single person in this thread has asked for, i dunno why people brought it up at all, that is a very small issue to have. No one's experience is really hampered by someone faking speedrun.com followers, especially not yours, as you do not seem to care anyway, who follows whom.
So yeah, if you don't mind, please give me a concrete example of worst case scenario, because I cannot see one.
[quote=Urinstein]Even if the follower count were visible, which not a single person in this thread has asked for[/quote] Followers and following should be visible [quote=Urinstein]how can that be exploited with bots or anything?[/quote] A script could be made that mass follows users
Well I already said, why would anyone get so bothered by it. If that is your worst case scenario, that is not so big as to outweigh the benefit of the "user pb notification feature".
And even so, just don't have it visible. In principle I agree with the criticism of "this is not what srcom should be about", when it comes to building a social media presence. But this is the speedrun records website. Why would "this is not what srcom should be about" be extended to being notified about speedrun records?
I'm not against this being added btw, I would be the one to make that script