Hey everyone! A few days ago during the SRC Series ULTRAKILL Speedrun Challenge announcement we mentioned that we were introducing two new participation prizes for *everyone* who submits a run to the challenge. The first participation prize is one month of SRC Supporter, but now let’s get into the previously unrevealed prize.Without any more deliberation, I would like to introduce titles!

# Titles

These are the second part of the participation prizes! By participating in a challenge, you will get a unique “title” to display next to your username. We’ve retroactively given out titles for any participants in the Rocket Racing and Ghostrunner speedrun challenges, and if you are interested in getting another - the title for this challenge is “ULTRA”!

![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/3CTk4nB_0bFWHeVDQxrQOEZelFi8ou2OUDqLpjFkUcD9MwDm5Pi9rMPaw5gSNcPUO9BHBdCNdaVzZkz7A7e7ycEernLcSrTaB06TgQzK6fEZGtADGMq7c-bmyGOcESzDwMqwPhfDItKXUjCY1bPDttI)

You can of course disable it if you’d like, or swap it out with another title of your choice if you have them unlocked!

![](https://lh7-us.googleusercontent.com/GxWrMJChGVG3NNrG5Rk8kMYF2FsN0z178oSbHnzhcnyz_WBdoSsXZQvmRLhZToNUd54Qvr4nUajdcVOvt0LjAR0v15T-ZQFqfwPRClegt0oD9CrZwOdyh_k-M4j_52jJQmVHbi3hroizs4ZNvdlZ-z8)

In the future, we are looking to add lots more titles for challenge participants and perhaps even for other activities on the site so stay tuned for that! As of the writing of this post, the ULTRAKILL Speedrun Challenge is still currently live which means you can claim your “ULTRA” title just by submitting any run that fulfills the challenge requirements before the deadline on March 20th, 2024 :)

Introducing titles, the latest in participation prizes for speedrun challenges on Speedrun.com :)

Introducing: Titles!

We are following up today after [yesterday’s $10,000 Speedrun Challenge announcement](https://www.speedrun.com/news/wo833e8m-prince-of-persia-the-lost-crown-10-000-speedrun-challenge-pit-of-eternal-sands) with some more even exciting news - we are super excited to announce that Ubisoft has not only sponsored this challenge with a whopping $10,000 prize pool, but an incredible 200 game keys for Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Deluxe Edition! Yes, you have read and understood that correctly. We will be giving away 200 PC copies of the game to the first 200 runners who submit a verified speedrun for [the Pit of Eternal Sands category in the PoP:TLC $10,000 Speedrun Challenge!](https://www.speedrun.com/challenges/5e3eoymq-pop_tlc-any-contest)

Already have the Deluxe Edition? Feel free to give it away to a friend, or a fellow speedrunner!

![](/static/blob/7n6m3jzq.jpg)

We hope you’re all as excited about this as we are. Go follow the challenge, and be amongst the first 200 to snag your free copy by submitting a speedrun. Happy running everyone, stay tuned for more exciting updates! :)

Want a free Deluxe Edition key for Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown? Be one of the first 200 to submit a verified speedrun to the challenge leaderboard in the Pit of Eternal Sands category!

Deluxe Key Giveaway - Prince of Persia $10,000 Speedrun Challenge (Pit of Eternal Sands)

Attention all future POP Speedrunners! We are extremely excited to announce our $10,000 Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Speedrunning Challenge in collaboration with Ubisoft! Prepare yourselves for a challenge which will test your cleverness, tenacity, and of course - speed.

**Starting Date:** January 15th, 2024

**Duration:** Two weeks, until 11:59PM UTC January 29th, 2024

This challenge was designed with a low barrier to entry in mind. That includes moving forward with a somewhat shorter category this time around, more on that shortly. Here’s what you need to know:

## Eligibility:

Must own a legitimate copy of Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown.

Open to players aged 18 and above worldwide, with the following exceptions: North Korea, Syria, Sudan, Cuba, and Venezuela.

## Category:

The featured category in this challenge will be “Pit of Eternal Sands”. This category has you run through the first 4 quests in the game, ending in a fairly significant plot point such that the category still feels whole & meaningful.

As far as rules go, the ruleset will be following a similar ruleset to what you might consider "No Major Glitches." If you would like to know more specifics, please refer to the category rules on the challenge leaderboard.

As always, some updates may have to be made to the ruleset depending on the development of the route over the coming weeks - but the spirit of the category will remain the same. Any updates to the ruleset will be communicated to participants as they are made.

# Submission:

Record your speedrun and submit it via our [Challenge leaderboard here on Speedrun.com.](https://www.speedrun.com/challenges/5e3eoymq-pop_tlc-pit-of-eternal-sands-10-000-speedrun-challenge)

Follow the guidelines provided for video formatting and submission requirements, found in the rules section.

# Rules and Regulations:

All speedruns must adhere to the official rules, available on the Speedrun.com Challenge leaderboard.

**Contest Rules:** [https://www.speedrun.com/challenges/5e3eoymq-pop_tlc-pit-of-eternal-sands-10-000-speedrun-challenge/contest](https://www.speedrun.com/challenges/5e3eoymq-pop_tlc-pit-of-eternal-sands-10-000-speedrun-challenge/contest)

**Category Rules:** [https://www.speedrun.com/challenges/5e3eoymq-pop_tlc-pit-of-eternal-sands-10-000-speedrun-challenge/rules?view=challenge](https://www.speedrun.com/challenges/5e3eoymq-pop_tlc-pit-of-eternal-sands-10-000-speedrun-challenge/rules?view=challenge)

## Prize Distribution:

The $10,000 prize pool will be distributed among the top performers for fastest completion time in the Pit of Eternal Sands category. The distribution is as follows:

**1st place** - $5,000

**2nd place** - $3,000

**3rd place** - $1,000

**4th place** - $250

**5th place** - $200

**6th place** - $150

**7th place to 10th place** - $100

## Challenges

In case you aren’t aware of what a challenge is in the context of Speedrun.com, a Challenge leaderboard functions similarly to the regular leaderboards you're already familiar with. However, we've made a few layout adjustments to cater to the time-sensitive nature of challenges and the inclusion of prize pools.

We always aim to avoid any undue pressure on the associated moderation team with whatever game is the focus of the challenge - so to ensure a smooth process, all runs submitted to the challenge leaderboard will be screened and verified by either SRC staff or Prince of Persia moderation team members *volunteering for the challenge specifically*. After the challenge concludes, SRC staff will collaborate with the Prince of Persia moderation team to discuss the potential merging of challenge runs into the regular leaderboard once the moratorium period expires, respecting the mod team's preferences.

## Preparation Suggestions

To follow the challenge as well as find tips & tricks for the speedrun, visit the [Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Challenge leaderboard right here on Speedrun.com](https://www.speedrun.com/challenges/5e3eoymq-pop_tlc-pit-of-eternal-sands-10-000-speedrun-challenge) and the [Prince of Persia Speedrunning Discord server](https://discord.com/invite/0Ss0agDWPoiSvr3E)

## Some Advice

The challenge lasts for two weeks, which may sound short, but it's ample time. The fiercest competition for the top three spots typically emerges in the final week or even the last few days of the challenge, so there's really no need to rush through your initial playthrough.

If you have any questions, feel free to pop by our [PoP:TLC forum thread](https://www.speedrun.com/forums/tournaments_and_races/0cy6w)!

Good luck, and have fun speedrunners! :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mznpnH8v2o0

Do you have the courage and cleverness to break the seal and enter the Pit of Eternal Sands?

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown $10,000 Speedrun Challenge - Pit of Eternal Sands

Today we're excited to launch **Community News**, an update to the Speedrun.com news system that allows everyone to contribute important announcements and news stories, and to help speedrunners and spectators learn about new games, marathons, or other important community events.

Here's how it works:

- Anyone can now submit news stories to Speedrun.com (including you!)
- After you submit a story, the site moderation team will either approve or reject your story. We'll also do some light copy-editing to make sure it's clear, concise, and free of major spelling or grammar mistakes.
- If approved, your story will appear on the homepage, news page, and other areas of the site. You'll be credited by name, with a link to your Speedrun.com account.

Here are some examples of what makes for a good story:

- New world record was set in a popular game.
- Popular streamer is hosting a charity event.
- Speedrunning an obscure game takes off in popularity.
- Marathon event is announced or shares new details.
- Famous personality mentions or promotes speedrunning.
- Announcement of charity event or fundraiser.
- Leaderboards open for a major new release.
- Notable bug, glitch, or skip discovered in major game.

Of course, we'll consider any compelling news story, even if it doesn't fit neatly into the list above.

All news stories also have a comments section to provide a place for discussion. We're excited to read and share your stories!

You can [submit community news here](/news/new).

Now everyone can submit news stories to Speedrun.com!

Introducing community news!

Hey everybody! First of all we would like to thank every one of you who took the time to report bugs and give us feedback on the new site rewrite, we really appreciate it! Let's take a look into some of the changes our developers have implemented over the last week, shall we?

## Bug Fixes

**General**

- General: OG/SEO image URL fixed
- Reduced cache TTL on comments
- Fixed various missing translations
- Fixed OG/Twitter metadata to be a full URL instead of a relative path
- Fixed user account deletion not working correctly
- Validate username regex for all services during edit and display
- Fixed overflow issue in run views on the Home page, User page, and the "Recent Runs" widget.
- Fixed content type of uploaded images

**Games**

- Fixed milliseconds not always showing properly
- Archiving a subcategory value now properly removes it from game leaderboards.
- Fixed a bug that caused runs to not be properly obsoleted if they were associated with an archived value.
- Properly orphan runs that are associated with an archived level, category, or subcategory value.
- Fix timer bug with WR chart on stats page
- Games: leaderboards now show the correct timers
- Games: leaderboards now properly updated when submitting a run with autoverify

**Runs**

- Fixed broken Bilibili video embeds
- Fixed rounding of milliseconds in run submission form

**Profiles**

- Fixed username component sometimes showing extra suffix

**Forums**

- Hide unread indicator for forums with no threads
- Fix pagination links in thread list
- Properly detect mentions to all valid usernames

**Permissions**

- Verifiers can now edit runs
- Series Super Mods can now create new games in the series
- Various other permissions related issues

**Notifications**

- Notifications: fix redirect paths of some notifications
- Notifications: fix duplicate notifications bug

## Improvements

**General**

- Various Performance Improvements
- Various backend improvements
- Added pagination to comments
- Improve detection of many service usernames
- Highlight archived values in run views on the Run page, and on the Mod Hub.
- Properly redirect old paths to reasonable places
- Improve latest runs view on Home page
- Added tooltips for everything without a label
- Loading bar improvements

**Games**

- Increase max length of text in guides and news posts
- Edit comment and Delete comment are now separate permissions
- Added Recent Runs widget
- Allow changing permissions for guides and resources (now defaults to "allow all")
- Allow pan and zoom on WR chart on stats page
- Don't show level stats if there are no level runs
- Improved variable settings related to category and level scope
- Made misc button on leaderboards stand out a bit more
- Added new "Game Stats" widget in sidebar

**Forums**

- Added "new forum thread" page (formerly a bad modal)
- Renamed sticky to "pin" to go with the new icon
- Added permalink icon to thread comments
- Layout improvements

**Profiles**

- Added About tab
- Added multiplayer details to runs view
- Improved runs view
- Improved threads and comments tabs
- Improved display of grouped usernames

**Notifications**

- Added notifications for comment and forum mentions
- Improve performance of notifications

That’s it for now! This is a list of fixes and improvements that have already been updated on the new site. Thank you for your patience as we continue to work through a list of known issues. Even now we are still working our way through feedback/bug reports from various platforms. Additional updates are coming soon!

We are committed to improving the user experience on Speedrun through bug fixes, improvements to current features as well as developing new features. If you’d like to help with this process, please submit your bug reports and feedback to the [Support Hub](https://www.speedrun.com/support) to ensure it gets seen!

Bug fixes and improvements from July 16-26, 2023

New Speedrun Bug Fixes & Improvements

Today is a major milestone for us, both in our efforts to deliver on long-held promises to the community, and to enable major new updates due later this year and beyond.

In this post we're going to cover what's new with today's launch, the recent history of the site, detail some work left to do, and preview what's coming later this year.

# Major changes

We had two main objectives with the new site:

1. Better serve the communities and users on Speedrun
2. Make it easier and faster for us to continue delivering on goal 1.

In order to meet these objectives, we rebuilt the whole site, back-end and front. Our release date was "when it's ready", which... just so happens to be today!

There's too much change to go into everything, but here are some of the highlights:

- **Fresh look and feel.** You may have noticed, but things look a bit different. We tried to keep the original spirit of Speedrun, but update it to look and feel like a website should in 2023. It's faster, prettier, and more reliable. Give it a try, we think you'll like it.
- **Game pages and leaderboards.** [Leaderboards](/only_up) are now wider, faster, and have a variety of new features. You can easily see the world record history, filter by more details (including verification status), and more! Check out a game page to see it in action.
- **Individual level support.** Level navigation is now built into the main leaderboard, and game pages now have a new separate [Levels tab](/pizza_tower/levels) where you can see an interactive summary of level record holders. This view can be filtered in the same way as the main leaderboard, including by subcategory!
- **Game management.** Game management has been completely overhauled. Speedrun is a complicated platform with a lot of configuration options for game moderators. We rebuilt it all with the primary goal of making sure that moderators felt confident when making changes. The site now explains every single option, warns about dangerous changes, and exposes new options to customize your communities.
- **Moderation tools.** We released the Moderator Hub feature almost 2 years ago to mixed reactions. We've been listening and taking notes, and are happy to say that we've rebuilt it from the ground up to address major points of feedback. The pending run list is now more dense, it's easy to search, you can assign runs to moderators, and the run review interface has been much improved.
- **Search.** Search is now faster, more accurate, and finds more content across the site. There's a new dedicated search results page where you can filter results. You can also easily bring up the search box with your keyboard, just press **/**. 
- **Game Discovery.** We've improved the [Games page](/games) to show popular new games and help you discover new games on different platforms and decades. We also standardized game cover image sizes (you may need to update them for the games you moderate.)
- **User pages.** [User pages](/users/Meta) got a fresh look and new features, including the ability to embed your Twitch stream when live, and improved access to various types of content like threads, comments, followers, and pending actions.
- **User following.** You can now follow users (in addition to games), and their runs will show up in your feed on the home page. User pages have Followers and Following tabs to help you discover new friends. We hope this will help you keep tabs on old friends and discover new game communities.
- **Group messaging.** We've overhauled [direct messaging](/messages) so you can make plans with the whole squad.
- **Guides and Resources.** We've given guides and resources a minor facelift, with more improvements planned in the future. You'll be happy to know that you can now drag and drop images and videos to upload them directly into guides, resources, news posts, etc.
- **New text editor.** The old Speedrun supported a weird markdown-ish text format, but didn't have an easy way to use it. We now have a new text editor with multiple modes (rich text, markdown, preview), which should make it a bit more pleasant to contribute guides, resources, news posts, or just express yourself when submitting a run or comment.
- **Internationalization.** Accessibility is important, and there's nothing more inaccessible than a webpage that you can't read. Speedrun is now fully translated into 17 different languages. The current translations are machine-generated, and their quality can best be described as "usable". Despite this, we see this as an important step forward for speedrunners who don't speak English, and we plan to make improvements.
- **Single sign-on and verified social connections.** You can now sign in with Discord, Google, or Twitch. Additionally you can [verify your Discord and Twitch](/settings/socials) accounts, giving your visitors confidence that they're talking to the real you.
- **... and lots more!**

It really should simply be *"more, better, faster"*.

We tried to make sure that all major existing functionality of the old site has been preserved or accounted for, but please let us know if we missed anything. The best place to do so is either in [The Site](/forums/the_site) forums, or by creating a [Bug Report](/support/tickets).

# History and lessons learned

Elo (the company that owns and operates Speedrun) acquired and began operating the site in 2020. Back then the site was struggling just to stay online. You may or not remember the famous **"Under Pressure"** error message that used to appear on nearly 40% of page loads.

After we took over, the first task was stabilizing the site and solving some of the most obvious problems. Then we went and started adding features - some went over well, others most certainly did not (sorry). Through it all we experienced a lot of growth (site traffic more than doubled in a year), and learned some important lessons.

The biggest thing we learned? We needed to slow down, communicate thoughtfully, and deliver on the promise and potential of the site.

# Making big improvements

In mid-2022 we recognized that it was simply too hard to make progress on the features that users cared the most about, and we struggled to resolve complex bugs. Under the covers, Speedrun is actually an incredibly complex platform (you wouldn't believe the nuance involved in determining the place of a run!), but the software wasn't scaling in the way it needed to. The old site (PHP) was really showing its, and making improvements was both difficult and dangerous - not a good combination.

***... we had to rebuild it ...***

Rebuilding a complex piece of software is a last resort. It's especially difficult and complex when you need to do it at the same time as you keep the existing site up and running. Still, we think it was a necessary step to making the major improvements the site needed. It took a while, but we're happy with the result! Even more importantly, we now have the ability to iterate on the site (introduce features, fix bugs) much faster and more thoughtfully than before.

For the curious: the old site was written in PHP, and the new site is Go (backend) and TypeScript (frontend) - just over 300,000 lines of code. We store data in MySQL and Redis.

# We're not done yet

As with any big migration, there are bound to be limitations and loose threads. The biggest limitation with the new release is that we were not able to make any changes to the mappings between categories, levels, and variables. The reason is simple: so long as the old site was involved, it'd be nearly impossible to correctly introduce new mapping logic. We did manage to make some improvements in this area, but it's far from our true goal of arbitrary custom mapping. So, this remains on our todo list - we hope to accomplish it later this year.

Another area for improvement is internationalization. As described above, it works, but the translations are not very good. We plan to improve them in the coming weeks and months.

# Looking toward the future

We're incredibly excited to launch the new Speedrun, and are already hard at work on making more improvements. Once the dust settles, we're confident you'll enjoy using the site.

Additionally, we have a few areas of focus that we'll be working on this year:

- **Make it easier to improve your PB.** We plan to introduce new features that will help you understand your runs, learn from other runners in the community, and improve your times. It's going to get *fast* in here!
- **Discover new communities and friends.** The Speedrun community is social by nature, but it can be hard to find new activities. We plan to make it easier to stay connected with existing friends, meet new ones, and improve all of our game communities.
- **Encourage the spirit of competition.** Speedrunning is competitive by nature, but it's far from organized. We think we can help bring some excitement and order to the chaos. Buckle up!

Big updates aside, you can expect a fairly steady stream of minor improvements over the coming months.

# Closing thoughts

We hope that you're pleased with today's update. It's been a long time coming!

I'd like to offer a special **THANK YOU** to our [Speedrun Supporter](/supporter) subscribers. For those who aren't aware, Supporter helps you contribute directly to the development and growth of Speedrun. It offers a variety of features to improve your experience on the site, including making the site faster and more enjoyable to use by removing all advertisements.

For those who aren't subscribed to Supporter but like what you see here, please consider it! Your support means a lot to us, and it really does provide us with the resources needed to continue making major improvements.

Now, where was I in [Tears of the Kingdom](/totk)...

We're excited to launch the new Speedrun website! Read on to learn more about what's new, how we got here, and what's coming next.

Welcome to the new Speedrun

Hey everyone! 



Recently, Imgur unfortunately announced the following:



“Our new Terms of Service will go into effect on May 15, 2023. We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account from our platform”



## Impact



We know it’s a common practice to use Imgur to embed images into guides and/or forums, so this  *may* or may **not** impact you and your experience here on SRC, but we figured it’d be best to spread the word just in case.



## What to do if your content is affected



The first thing you can do is make sure you re-download any images you’ve previously embedded with Imgur so they are safely backed up on your device. Secondly, if you wish to preserve the embedded content on SRC, you can use a different service like Discord or PostImages to create the embed links and simply replace the links in your content. 



Check the instructions below for each service, and of course please note there are plenty of other free services out there that will all do essentially the same thing.



**Discord**



On Discord, if you send an image to a friend, server, or even just an alternate account of your own - you can right click it and either Copy Link or Open Link to get the embed link, then simply Paste it into your content on SRC and it will automatically embed

![](https://next.speedrun.com/static/blob/0dz404n6.jpg)

![](https://next.speedrun.com/static/blob/0wzxpver.jpg)

![](https://next.speedrun.com/static/blob/qrz2oke0.jpg)

**PostImages**



For PostImages, head over to [https://postimages.org/](https://postimages.org/), click Choose Images, and select your image. You’ll be brought to a page that looks like this.

![](https://next.speedrun.com/static/blob/1pzmlknk.jpg)Go to one of the first two addresses, and you’ll be on a page like this 

![](https://next.speedrun.com/static/blob/2yzrx4z4.jpg)Then, you can right click the image and either “Copy image address or “Open image in new tab” to get the embed link, then once again simply Paste it into your content on SRC and it will automatically embed!

![](https://next.speedrun.com/static/blob/v5ng5jzq.jpg)

“We will be focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account from our platform” -Imgur

Read more to find out some options for if your content is affected.


Imgur is Deleting All Old Content Not Tied to an Account - Find Out if This Affects You.



![](https://next.speedrun.com/static/blob/1pzmpkzk.jpg)## Speedrun Shop



We’re excited to announce our brand new merch store, Speedrun Shop! Our goal with the launch of Speedrun Shop is to celebrate speedrunning, and we’re doing this by launching our own line of merch as well as bringing on board some recognizable names in the speedrunning scene in the form of partners in our Merch Partner Program! 



## Merch Partner Program



We’re excited to be working with our merch partners to bring great products to all of you, and support fantastic names in the speedrunning space. Currently, we’re working with the legendary retro speedrunner GrandPooBear as well as two marathons we’re really proud to be working with - Indiethon and For The Love of Gaming (FTLG)! 

![](https://next.speedrun.com/static/blob/2yzrw4n4.jpg)

## The Trevor Project



We would like to take this time to also announce that all Speedrun Shop proceeds for the rest of this week (ending Nov 20th, 2022 11:59pm UTC) will instead be donated to The Trevor Project! You can learn more about The Trevor Project [here](https://www.thetrevorproject.org/)



You can check out Speedrun.Shop [here](https://www.speedrun.shop/en-ca)

![](https://next.speedrun.com/static/blob/v5ngjjnq.jpg)

This article is for a previous Merch Shop we had opened, which has now been closed

Introducing Merch: Speedrun Shop!

Hey everyone! In the last couple of weeks, we’ve been receiving a lot of valuable feedback from everyone who participated in both beta stages. Today, we’re announcing that these leaderboard updates are now public for **everyone** to use! Before we dive into the details, I’d like to take a moment to thank each and every one of you for trying it out and letting us know what you think! Your feedback is monumental, and we value it tremendously.

![](https://next.speedrun.com/static/blob/r1n8y4eq.jpg)

For those who haven’t seen any of our previous pieces about the leaderboard update, let me give a recap of what you can expect from this update as well as future ones!



##  Category & Sub-Category Header Changes



We’re trying out a new design with the Category & Sub-Category header which brings back the classic category display with some visual tweaks and a new method of handling misc runs. On top of this, we’ve created a new interface for filters that will support our future development work, which will allow you to select multiple values of a single variable at one time! 

![](https://next.speedrun.com/static/blob/83nv9pem.jpg)

## New Filtering System

Previously, you could only select one value to filter by at a time, but now you can now filter by multiple values of a single variable! For example, if you have a variable for platforms with the values of Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X, PS5, and PC - you could only filter to view one value at a time previously. Now, you can for instance view runs from Nintendo Switch and PC at the same time but exclude Xbox and PS5 if you want :) We have also added a new implementation of Date Filtering that fits seamlessly within the new Filters modal! 

![](https://next.speedrun.com/static/blob/0dz4y4z6.jpg)

## URLs and Direct Linking



With the latest update, you can now link *directly* to specific sub-categories, or even the **rules page** of any category/sub-category! For those of you who have had your hands on this functionality during the first release of this beta, you may notice that the URLs have been updated to be a bit more human-readable for your convenience. Backwards compatibility with the old URL format is now also supported, e.g. /mc#Any.



## Backend Improvements & Pagination



This update is primarily focused on backend improvements to vastly increase speed for leaderboards large and small. We have also included an overhaul of the table component, focused on creating a better experience for leaderboards with lots of variables and lots of runs, across all devices. This includes the addition of pagination to leaderboards. No more worries about loading leaderboards with more than 1000 runs!

![](https://next.speedrun.com/static/blob/0wzx7ver.jpg)

## Coming Up Next



The entire Speedrun.com team is excited to hear your feedback surrounding this update so we can use it to help shape future changes in this area.





Coming up next, we still have lots of feedback from our UI/UX interviews we did earlier this year that we're excited to bring to life moving forward. This will include UI improvements to the game info area to emphasize important information like community site/discord links. We also have planned improvements to the category/variable navigation area, as well as improving the tooling to create categories/variables from the moderator side of things. This will include but is not limited to allowing moderators to choose if sub-categories get displayed in the dropdown format or the classic “pill” format. Of course, we are always working towards better performance across the site - so you can expect some speed increases too.

Some updates about leaderboard improvements, as well as plans for the future.

Leaderboard Update - Now Public!

Hey all! First of all, I want to give a massive thanks to everyone for the amazing feedback on our current round of beta features - we’re excited to be pushing these into public access right **now**! Let’s take a peek at these shiny new features.



## Game Groups

![](https://next.speedrun.com/static/blob/3xz0k0nl.jpg)As a Supporter, you can now group games together! (Note, this is the only part of this update exclusive to Supporter - **the rest of Game Ordering is free for all**) 



Once games have been grouped, you can rename them, assign them a color and best of all…



## Game Ordering… now with Drag & Drop!

![](https://next.speedrun.com/static/blob/9kzw4ynq.jpg)

You can now Drag & Drop games within Game Ordering! Sort by “Custom” and you can organize your runs to your hearts content! This makes it much easier to organize your profile :) If you have games grouped together, you can even adjust the position of entire run groups!



Also please keep in mind, this Drag & Drop feature is actually going to be rolled out where appropriate across the site once it's ready. This means that potentially any place with a “list” (levels, categories, variables, etc) which is currently using up and down arrows for navigation, will have drag and drop ordering implemented as well - exponentially increasing the ease of modifying these lists.



## Featured Runs



Featuring a run lets you pin a preview of the run up at the top of your profile. You can feature one full game run, and one individual level run! 

![](https://next.speedrun.com/static/blob/oxzd9qnm.jpg)

They don’t have to be PBs either, if for whatever reason you’d like to feature an old obsolete run that you’re more proud of - you can do that as well. :)

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## Coming up next



In the last month, we have reflected on about two years worth of feedback surrounding the current Speedrun.com leaderboard experience and sent out a survey created by our UX Designer (big thank you to those who filled that out!). We are now full steam ahead on the leaderboard rework! For those of you who have taken part in our UX interviews, thank you so much once again :) They were a MASSIVE help.



Although nothing is concrete yet, Supporters can also expect some fresh new beta features to play with shortly if that’s something you’re interested in!





Today, we're pushing two new features from beta into the public! Let's take a look at the new Game Ordering and Featured Run features.

Beta Features Going Public - Featured Run and Game Ordering

In order to properly figure out categories, rules, timing method, etc. this leaderboard will not feature any runs for the first two weeks after the game's release. In the meantime you can join us in the [Prince of Persia discord](https://discordapp.com/invite/0Ss0agDWPoiSvr3E) to discuss about the game.

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

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Camcorder

The leaderboards will open 2 weeks from launch to allow discussion about the categories we want to start out with.

Hades 2

Indigo Park: Chapter 1

An embargo is in place. Please come back when the embargo is open!

**Why?**: The embargo is in place to allow moderators and community members to properly set up the leaderboards. Don't want to rush it and make mistakes!

Dr Robotnik's Ring Racers

Rooftops & Alleys

Join the discord to to learn about the categories if you'd like to start doing runs ahead of the board opening.

Animal Well

This game is going to be released on May 9th! Come back when it is released!