The site was down for a bit this morning due to server loading issues. We worked with the server admin to fix some of these issues. The site should hopefully be running a little faster, but there's still improvement to be made.

The search bar bug was fixed.

IL tables might be fixed. Some changes were made, but I'm unsure if they fixed the whole issue, so let us know.

An html issue was fixed. Some moderator permission issues were fixed. We're aware of a couple other moderator permission issues that may not have been fully addressed yet.

This is my personal opinion and recommendation. It will vary somewhat between games and from community to community.

In general I think data within a game should be comparable along some metric. If the ports don't have the same levels for the most part, they should probably generally be a different game. If we can't make any rough comparison between the two times due to a lot of difference in gameplay, this should probably also generally be a different game.

Most games combined under one game title have small and measurable differences. Examples may include lag differences, text differences, and possibly some glitch differences, among other things.

For example, Donkey Kong Country and Donkey Kong Land are not really comparable. I'm not sure how these thoughts apply to The Little Mermaid, but if some ports are that different, I'd highly recommend putting it under a different game.

Data within a game should have some relative use in comparing times in my opinion.

I'm unable to replicate this issue on my end. There were site load issues that were fixed this morning.

Is this issue still occurring for you now?

Faschz I forwarded your post to the team. As discussed in this thread, bring up future issues privately and they will be handled.

This issue may not be fully fixed, Pac and team are still looking into some strange behavior.

You mention "three timing fields", but I think it will work better in the long run just to let users add an unrestricted number of generic time fields and custom name them. (Kinda like adding a category.)

If it's not clear what I mean I can elaborate.

Here's a link to the TAS:

Game mods, feel free to link TASes in the forums and the resources. We may look into a better place for them in the future, but putting them on the main leaderboards alongside console runs is potentially confusing to users.

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You mean it didn't take you 46 hours? I removed it.

I don't know the answer to this one. Pac has been busy IRL this week.

There's some known oddness with duplicated runs and orphaned runs that needs fixed over time.

The "themes off by default, enabled in user settings" solution would help with a lot of issues in my opinion. How do other people feel about that?

My personal thoughts:

I think the general idea of having custom themes to give communities a more personal feel can offer some level of benefit. I think it also introduces many moderation concerns and sometimes causes pages to be of low visual quality.

Functionality: 1: Upload box art

• This is basic functionality. 2: Custom table colors
• Interferes with username colors quite often. 3: Custom text color for categories/sidebar
• Does this offer major benefit? 4: Customize Speedrun.com logo 5: Custom background
• Gives page a visual association with the game. 6: Possibly custom trophies in the future.
• Can be cool.

Moderation Options: 1: No themes 2: All themes must be approved by a full moderator or above (~8 people currently can perform general site moderation) 3: Full moderators adjust games as they see necessary

In the most generic sense, I think if we choose to support themes, they should at least follow some basic guidelines.

General theme guidelines:

• Should improve the quality of the board for the general public.
• Should make sense associated with the game for the average user.
• The main focus of the page is the data. The theme should not detract from that.

While the site currently has issues on mobile, in the long term we'd naturally like for it to be usable in this manner. This creates a need to limit higher intensity issues on the page.

High intensity features: 1: Animated images 2: High resolution/large files 3: Scrolling

Scrolling may or may not be okay, not sure how intensive it is.

I can offer discussion of an option to maintain these items whereby users must opt-in, but I think it is not worth the hassle to maintain these high intensity features. If it's off by default is it really worth moderating?

I don't really like the transparent tables over images. It makes things hard to read. I would probably recommend making all tables with images behind them solid, personally.

I expect that the disable themes option will be available for users to remove colors and images regardless. My personal minimalist approach would be an approved medium resolution non-animated background with no transparency in the table and approved trophies only.

What functionality is good, what is bad and distracting? If there is good functionality, how should we moderate it?

Remember this is all as it pertains to the average user. If you personally dislike it, the option exists to remove it. If you feel that parts of it detract more from the data than they improve the personal feel for each board, that is what I want to know.

(I might revise this a bit later, want to get discussion started though.)

It looks like more mods were added. If there's any further issues that need resolved let us know.

We still need private messaging added and possibly some other ways to bring up situations like this in the future.

An option for level view default exists in the top menu for game moderators. There's some related functionality that needs added/improved though.

EDIT: Sorry, didn't connect topic title with post.

It's just something a lot of sites have. I don't see why not to add it eventually.

https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/users/users-a.html http://tasvideos.org/forum/memberlist.php

There's certainly some work necessary to improve the layouts. How the site displays on mobile needs some improvement eventually as well. Maybe there's quick changes that can be made, but there's also a lot of site functionality improvements that may be higher priority at the moment.

Maybe Pac or Lightnat0r can comment on the background cutoff issue specifically.

PJC could you give an example for that as it would pertain to ILs?

There's definitely need for for improvement on categories/tables along these lines, including what Bismuth mentioned. I think some time will have to be spent planning this out in a modular and expandable fashion instead of throwing it together right away. It's a pretty major task to solve correctly in my opinion.

A lot of the moderators are series moderators who currently get power over all the games in the series because we don't have people to handle all the individual games right now. (There's an option for the game moderators to turn off transferring series moderators.)

It's obviously preferable to have someone that runs it handling it, but absolutely requiring it won't be ideal. Picture a case where maybe one person in the universe runs the game and isn't a member, but a second person knows the game decently well and is willing to moderate it.

We can shift people around as necessary to get better representation in charge of boards. There's no way to always get the right people in charge the first time. Like you said it's an inherent problem that we can only solve gradually over time.

Categories are all individually added by moderators and will probably largely stay that way. There may be a "request a category" type thing eventually.

Also we don't have private messages yet, so solving some of these issues on a large scale may not be the smoothest for the short-term.

Everything here pertains only to runs as shown on game leaderboard pages.

Moderator badges and Twitch icons are removed at the moment. They are currently replaced with flags.

1: Flags were requested as optional, which is probably good. Should flags be default on or off. (How should it display to a non-registered or newly registered user?)

2: Do people want an option to re-enable moderator badges and Twitch icons? It would be off by default.

3: As a separate question: In the future would people like to see game region flags as text (US, J.P, PAL) or have them kept as the images they currently are.

Custom theme disabling option was added today in user settings.

We're discussing what to do about high resolution and moving backgrounds. I tend to think they should at the very least not be showed like that by default, if not just disallowed altogether. I think that customized themes are neat, but like Kirua said should not interfere with the utility of the board. I also tend to think it is slightly better to have the functionality available than not have it at all, but I don't have a strong preference on that.

Also Twitch partner icons and user status icons were replaced by user flags on the leaderboards pages.