I think "The old site (PHP) was really showing its, and making improvements.." should say "The old site (PHP) was really showing its age, and making improvements.."

Dang, incredibly proud of us getting 6th place on our first try like this, we're awesome.

Unrelatedly, I think your other friend's handle is Person_Man :)

bepis

A new user coming to a board and seeing "Anonymous" with a video is kinda weird, but basically understandable. They can watch the video and see that a speedrun was in fact done with that time by someone.

But seeing "Anonymous" and NO video leaves you with absolutely nothing to go on, and would be very confusing. How can you search for more information about the history or legitimacy of the time if there's literally no information beyond the time itself? I think this would be very offputting and not worth it.

I'm personally fine with previously-verified runs being kept when proof is lost. One mitigation strategy that could possibly be considered is trying to get backups of videos hosted on other sites — TASVideos has everything on the Internet Archive as well as YouTube, for instance. I don't know that that's a viable option here, but thinking about how to encourage or automate the process of getting video onto more than just twitch/YT could be valuable.

I have a concern regarding "• The game should have been played by a reasonably large number of people."

I have recently routed and run a brand new game, and I submitted a game request for it (i think shortly before this rules update, but that probably doesn't matter). I'm of course the only runner currently. I was hoping that having an SRC page already set up would make it more enticing for other runners to try it out, so I was holding off on posting my run to r/speedrun until the approval came through.

Is this really an unreasonable thing to do? Why shouldn't an SRC leaderboard be part of building a game's community from the beginning?

EDIT after reading more of this thread (I was originally asked to paste the above from Discord):

I am heartened to hear that the # of players rule will be rewritten, but a bit nervous about "I believe originally that specific one was for extremely obscure games where it could get accepted/rejected (in the middle) so we would end up trying to see if they had some kind of community backing." My game IS very obscure; I was just under the impression that SRC was in the business of hosting leaderboards for pretty obscure games. It's a good game with interesting speed tech, it's definitely not spam or anything, but it definitely isn't going to have any kind of community outside of what I can manage to scrape together on reddit and twitter, and maybe OSC someday. I guess I'll wait and see what happens for now, but I guess I just hope that the value of tiny communities isn't forgotten.

I'm not a runner, but as a fan of Portal speedruns, it would be really damn nice if the community adopted this. Watching nothing for a minute isn't very fun.

If only this solution could be applied to Mario64 and OoT as well...