"Lost in the GDQ event hype and other things: speedrun.com's owners, Elo, are attempting to re-license leaderboard data (previously under CC BY-NC) under our nose on their terms, removing attribution requirements and community ownership of leaderboards."
2 years ago
Michigan, USA

Thank God this clarification happened! Otherwise, my Columns III speedrun could be left in limbo. That board is small (only four times, five if you count an obsoleted one, and one active moderator.) I found a few other speedruns on YouTube, and if I made my own website, I might list those times. I would also list the one without video proof (but with a witness) that's slower than my time, but not if it were under 30 minutes.

United States

@SBCz telling the hard truths.

That reddit thread exploded hard and fast (even for reddit), so the lack of trust isn't just for us usual sitegoers.

This whole thing's been rather wild for me, as I took about a year and a half hiatus from speedrunning a few months before the sale. I've since come back in time to see all of this go down and find the state of things to be quite different.

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Washington, USA
EmeraldAly
She/Her, They/Them
2 years ago

Meh. All this site ever was for Pac was a cash cow, too. I'm not really concerned by any of this.

European Union

I find it a bit amusing that Pac's main speedgame doesnt use speedrun.com