Notifying about a relevant thread on general Mega Man series forum at http://www.speedrun.com/mega_man/thread/dtpsq

The recent X3 drama brought up the topic of our two different leaderboard sites over on the classic mega side too, and I feel this discussion is important enough that it should be out in the open instead of splintered across private messages between various people and semi-private chats, as it has been so far.

The current situation is that Mega Man speedrun leaderboards live on megamanleaderboards.net, which has existed before speedrun.com and is preferred by the majority of Mega Man runners (or classic mega runners at least) for a variety of reasons. On the other hand, many players who run many differents games would like to have all their runs in one place. As full migration to speedrun.com is clearly off the table, this would mean having the games on both sites.

The ideal solution would be full automatic mirroring. Joka has stated that this would be technically possible, but a lot of work that nobody wants to touch.

The realistic options are, if I'm not missing anything:

1. Have runs on mmlb only, have srcom direct users there with something like what's now on the DKC boards at http://www.speedrun.com/dkc1

2. Have people manually mirror the boards. Some individual games are successfully doing this at the moment, but it's unlikely to work on full scale given the sheer number of games and the commitment required.

3. Have the boards open but unmaintained. This lets people get their runs on their profiles, but it will also result in people looking up Mega Man leaderboards and finding ones with outdated records, players with multiple entries, many missing runs and such, as you can currently see for Mega Mans 1, 3 and 6.