Second update:

• Finally made some comparison images: https://imgur.com/a/x5Z01C7
• added a forum post line length setting
• fixed distorted favicon icons if they are not square
• removed the nearest neighbor scaling on icons and images
• some more "code" comments and explanations
• small changes to the default values
• improved "(empty)" marker visibility on some leaderboard color combinations

It looks like the site is slowly fixing some things, so i will probably remove a few features soon.

To update just replace your current CSS with the updated contents of this: https://gist.github.com/shenef/3dd4b99e74882873d7fb45cb5549f5b1 (same link as in the first post)

All columns in the leaderboard table are centered, since "1st", "2nd" and "3rd" differ in length that causes them to be misaligned. If that (and other small design quirks on srcom) bothers you, i made a "theme" that fixes a few things like that: https://www.speedrun.com/the_site/thread/efgfj

I kind of agree with Taru that there is too much abuse potential. In the case of GDQ it's less of a problem since there are much less submissions than there are users here. For now a workaround for "Any/All" could be to toggle all 3 checkboxes which is then displayed as (He/Him, She/Her, They/Them). A long-term solution could be to collect pronouns, have a vote on them to determine the order and then putting them into a dropdown list to choose from (maybe also an option to add a second set of pronouns? no idea how many people could be interested in that).

That most likely is because the formatting method for rules has been changed to markdown formatting. Your problem specifically should be solved by adding two spaces behind each line or just insert another line break. For more info on formatting see: https://www.speedrun.com/the_site/thread/wrefn#ch2Markdown And here you can find a general markdown cheatsheet: https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/Markdown-Cheatsheet (note that not everything there works exactly the same on srcom, but most stuff does)

Points 3 and 4 of the Game Rules:

• No wished characters (except Noelle), usage of the shop or gacha elements are banned during runs (unless category rules specify otherwise) Characters from trials are allowed.
• Usage of the mailbox or any limited time challenge is banned during a run.

There are separate Categories for Holiday Events that can be found in the Category Extensions (found in the sidebar on the left). Runs that are active can't be submitted to the normal Categories since there is indeed a big advantage. I'm sure a mod will read this and edit the rules accordingly.

The "Help / Contact" page (https://www.speedrun.com/help) links to the main "The Site" Forum page for Feature Requests and Bugs. That should probably be changed to https://www.speedrun.com/the_site/thread/g79jt and https://www.speedrun.com/the_site/thread/onfz6 respectively.

"Social links are reserved for sites that have some form of messaging on them." In that case about half of the existing social link options must be removed (especially mixer). But they are called "Social links" not "Contact links" so i guess it's fine.

While i agree that GitHub should be added, feature requests should be posted here instead: https://www.speedrun.com/the_site/thread/g79jt

I think it's a genre that's notoriously hard to route since it can have many mechanics that can have a widespread influence. For example choosing a weapon, using an item, leveling up and then distributing skill points into stats, learning skills or resistances from enemies or bosses. What are common concepts and tipps that help for routing and can be applied to a wide variety of RPG games? What data should you collect?

Technically the mods are correct that Macs are Personal Computers (PCs) and while many seem to think "PC" means that it is a computer running a windows operating system, that's not actually correct. I agree that Mac should be added as a platform to games that are supported under MacOS. But since srcom doesn't have a Windows platform it becomes complicated and really comes down to the mods on deciding how to handle it since there is no standard procedure. Personally i think srcom should remove the "PC" platform entirely and use operating systems instead.

MacOS runs definitely shouldn't go as iOS, especially if the game is also playable on iOS devices. I don't know the game but putting controller and touchscreen together as a category seems weird, isn't a mouse much more similar to a touchscreen than a controller?

If it's possible to choose the layout then they should be a variable or be separated categories

@Liv It wasn't just one device, it was on two phones with chrome and two PCs with either chrome+firefox or firefox+2 different chrome versions (haven't tested on edge yet, though that is basically chrome now).

But maybe the files just didn't fit the requirements of the site, can't know since there is no error message or documentation

This thread reminded me that i changed the trophy icons for Albion Online a few months ago. Seems like they still haven't updated on any of my devices so i just removed them now 🤷

Out of curiosity, why do you require the main menu to be shown? While in many game it happens to be seen before the run, this is the first game i see that specifically requires it even though there doesn't seem to be something like the version info. I agree with @Daravae that it'd probably be better to show the rules directly on the site instead of a github page. If you want pretty formatting, srcom supports markdown formatting for rules (strangely only for rules). There is a formatting guide pinned in the The Site Forum. btw, for the totem, chest and trap categories the main menu notice seems to be missing

Could a game be considered more notable if there already is a externally managed board with a couple runners and run videos? Especially if the community mostly does it to have the mod tools and findability srcom offers. Just had to think of a recent EZScape video where he interviewed someone from ELO. They mentioned that they would be happy to welcome externally managed leaderboards if they would benefit from new srcom features

My "obscure" runs are mostly obscure because they leverage quite unique concepts

https://www.speedrun.com/marblemarcher Marble Marcher is a marble game that is played on 3D Fractals that are generated in real-time using Ray-Marching (works similar to ray-tracing). Most levels are static but there also are moving levels where the fractal is changing while playing. It's open source and there also is a community edition that added extra features like a level editor and has better performance and graphics.

https://www.speedrun.com/tsiiyh Boktai is a series of vampire hunter + stealth games for the GameBoy Advance that has a Light Sensor built into the cartridge. Gameplay interacts with the strength of the Sun and time of day and date. While nowadays it's often played using emulators there are runners that play using UV-Lights or even have a portable streaming setup to be able to play outside with real sun.

Visiting the Minecraft series page there are 58 Games listed as "officially" being part of the Minecraft series. To my knowledge this should be the full list of official Minecraft games:

• Minecraft Classic
• Minecraft Bedrock Edition
• Minecraft Java Edition
• Minecraft Legacy Console Edition (containing releases for a bunch of platforms like PS Vita, Wii U, etc)
• Minecraft New Nintendo 3DS Edition
• Minecraft Education Edition
• Minecraft Pocket Edition
• Minecraft: Story Mode
• Minecraft: Story Mode Season Two
• Minecraft Dungeons
• Minecraft Earth

But the Series page lists stuff like

• "I Don't Know What Map To Make"
• "Jig's Guide: Redstone Basics"
• "GommeHD.net"
• "Rewinside Server"
• "Restaurant Sim: Head Chef"
• "Minecraft Ripoff (Sam Hogan)"
• "Minecraft Without Blocks (Terrain Generator)" and more, as "official Minecraft games". How did this ever get this far off the rails? It would be great to get some sort of statement from one of the nine series moderators. Especially since it gets much worse if you toggle "Unofficial Releases" and it lists 155 games of which 99 have 0 "active players" (i'm not saying that those entries should be removed because of low activity, but because a not insignificant amount of them seem to be servers i'm a little concerned that some of them have been added to advertise a server and they might not even be online and available anymore)

I don't think this game needs a Category Extension board. Currently the dandy races (or other categories) don't clutter up the category selection and there are no meme or niche categories either. Imo the races and domains could be moved to IL's since that's what they are anyway, specific sections/levels/quests/dungeons of a game played in isolation. Having domains (with solo and coop categories) in IL's would also open it up more for a speedclear community.

"runs" that last only a few seconds have always struck me as kinda BS that's not even the case for the game in question

it looks for all the world like they only did these "runs" to score free WR's uh... how else would you fill up a leaderboard and start competition? Personally i like filling up a board, sometimes intentionally with unoptimized runs to encourage others to improve on that. IL's also are a great resource for new any% runners to quickly check for strats without having to search through a full run.

Anyway, I checked the IL boards for that game and as far as i can tell no action has been taken (rules added, runs verified) Would be nice to get a response from @EmeraldAly on how they intend to proceed.

And a Sidenote, "00Svo" seems to have moved all their runs from twitch to youtube so all their runs use a broken twitch link.

Your run hasn't been verified yet because it covers up the timer and i was checking back with another mod. Aside from that, a mod/leaderboard is considered inactive if a run hasn't been verified in 21 days. Your run has been pending for a little over 24 hours. Feel free to join our discord if you are interested in more activity and talk around Marble Marcher.