I think if we proposed some kind of automated, arithmetic based method of ordering leaderboards, most people would be against it and dislike that the site is using an automated process to order their boards for them.

I would also argue if this was the case for lesser popular games, meme categories would become the norm (they're usually easier to look good in because they're typically less optimized, so if people could push these out of misc. through pure numbers they probably would) and more optimized categories (such as Any% or 100% without any added 'meme' stipulation or totally arbitrary modifier) would be pushed further and further back, possibly into misc.

Please allow users to hide the twitch player in the main page, or at least make it not auto-play, it's really annoying. And make those changes optional in the user settings, because some might like that for some reason.

I had thought of another idea (assuming it's not already implemented and I'm just missing out). What if there was a viewable waiting list for runs to be verified? Like in games, people (who aren't mods) can see pending runs?

What would that accomplish?

idk, I just thought it up randomly and thought it'd be an interesting idea.

When someone edits a run and it needs to be re-verified, it would be very useful for moderators to be able to see what was edited. There's no need to do a full re-verification if it's just a description or info edit, but I'm currently looking at a really old run that was edited and I have no way to tell what's been changed.

It is probably in the audit log, but finding that would be annoying. A notification for mods at the least would be really helpful.

Not to mention the audit log is only accessible to super mods. Having to talk to a super mod any time this comes up is not exactly ideal.

While on the subject, mods should really be able to see the audit log too.

Hmm, thought I posted here earlier but the post didn't save. Maybe due to the password change thing that happened.

Anyways, I agree with Shiken on Reg Mods accessing the audit log. As for having mods see edits on re-verify runs, it would be nice, but I don't think that's a big issue -- mods can write something in the comments if needed.

You should be able to sort leaderboards by date.

I think it would be useful to have some way of enabling notifications for the main forums. Because of how large they are you could maybe select specific threads to get notifications on or something. It would make it easier to have a discussion there

@Derpeth Date of what? Date of leaderboard creation? Date of game creation? Date of latest run?

I mean sorting the runs by date.

@Derpeth you can use the API for that, implementing that for the leaderboards is nonesense.

One feature that I think would be quite nice, would be the option to have multiple titles for a game that users can choose. For example, the 4th Ratchet and Clank game is called Ratchet Deadlocked in NTSC regions, and Ratchet Gladiator in PAL, and I think it would be nice if we were able to choose on a game-by-game basis which title the site displays for us, so that we in PAL land don't have to see the American titles for things. Consoles too, like giving us the choice to see Mega Drive or Genesis.

Have it so I can actually enter subcategories when I enter one for a marathon.

Google introduced this tool called web.dev to help web developers assess their websites:

So I ran speedrun.com thtough it, and got these results: https://lighthouse-dot-webdotdevsite.appspot.com/lh/html?url=https://speedrun.com

I think taking even the first suggestion from these results would optimize load times for the site. Serve images in next-gen formats Estimated savings: 8.25 s Image formats like JPEG 2000, JPEG XR, and WebP often provide better compression than PNG or JPEG, which means faster downloads and less data consumption.

Take a look, devs :)

Update 8/31/2023 Can't figure out how to run the report again but I assume the website is doing better now that it's in React, so I'm marking this as complete :))

It would be neat for the Statistics page if you could click on any of the dots in the WR History timeline and it take you to that submission or video to watch

Is it possible to not use autoplay videos on this site with sound, at least on the main page?

Requesting the removal of "like-a-post" so @Imaproshaman can stop liking every post on the site resulting in unnecessary notifications.