60 categories seem like a bit too much to sustain competition, and indeed we see almost exclusively runs for the easiest and the hardest categories. In addition to moving the runs to an IL board, removing intermediate difficulties could help make the game more competitive and orientable.
This would follow a precedent set by Age of Empires I, II DE (formerly also II but there even easiest was removed), Anno 1404, and probably many similar games.
Personally I have no intentions of uploading or even recording any further Hard and Heroic playthroughs that I go through to unlock Legendary mode, and I've deleted my submission of Riven on Heroic to speed up the verification of runs that I actually care about.
It seems the old LoR speedrunning server got deleted, and we aren't sure why. None of the current supermods can remember who the initial server admin was, so there's currently no way to contact them.
Since you cannot bring back Discord servers if they're deleted anyway, we just created a brand new
