Hi so I don’t expect it to happen but I will ask so I may someday be able to post speed runs since my mom won’t let me be a YouTuber, PLEASE mods of the site, owner of the site, somebody make it where you don’t need a link to post videos. I use my phone’s camera to take my speedruns, and I can’t post them because there’s nowhere for the cameras videos, only pictures. Plus videos by the phone camera without a site are harder to edit, especially with big fingers like mine, making it more believable then a harshly edited video on YouTube or something. I understand not all videos are edited, that’s not what I’m on about, I just want to post my runs, so please let us post videos from the camera/photos app. Please.
Not gonna happen. Video storage gets insanely expensive very fast, there is no world where speedrun.com could realistically offer this even if they wanted to.
Ok then, but for context this means that the system is making it where people without social media are basically getting told “Oh yeah no you can’t post any runs or helpful content that requires video because you do not have YouTube, Twitch, or anything else a mom wouldn’t let a teen do”. I’m not here to start an argument, I don’t see where videos would cost money, but ok and thank you for at least looking at my post. Thank you.
the system is making it where people without social media are basically getting told “Oh yeah no you can’t post any runs
You're making it sound like speedrun.com is choosing to make your situation complicated on purpose. It is not. I cannot state this more clearly; they simply cannot do what you are asking for. It'd be great if they could, but this is just how things are and there's nothing that anyone can do about that.
anything else a mom wouldn’t let a teen do
Honestly even if it was an option I don't really see why your mom would be okay with you uploading a video here directly and not uploading an unlisted video to YouTube that's only linked here, it'd basically be the same thing. In any case, you either have to sort this out with her or just wait until you can make your own decisions. That's really all there is to this.
I don’t see where videos would cost money
Everything costs money. The cloud isn't magic, it's just somebody else's computer. Videos would have to be stored on a server somewhere, and it costs money to run that server. YouTube and Twitch can eat the storage cost because they're run by trillion dollar companies that already operate mass data storage for other aspects of their business (though even Twitch severely limits how much you can store now), and in YouTube's case the service itself is profitable. speedrun.com is run by a very small company with a relatively small userbase (YouTube has 50x more users every day than speedrun.com has total), meaning relatively small opportunity for profit from videos, so comparing the data storage cost to the potential benefit for them this whole idea is unfortunately just nonsense.
Mm ok. Thank you for looking at this though. Also if I came across mean I didn’t mean to, so if I did I’m sorry, when I wrote that message I didn’t see how it would come across mean but I do now, so sorry about that.