Almost a year ago, I have made a video and a post regarding leaderboards splitting up into more and more subcategories these days. The original thread can be found here: https://www.speedrun.com/The_Site/thread/g79jt/42#9h77m

From what I've seen, everything I said in that thread still holds true; People rather use subcategories instead of filters, since they're fewer clicks away and 'easier' to use.

So I came up with the idea of an "All subcategories" button, which combines/shows all subcategories under one subcategory/tab. For some games, this makes very little sense, which is why there needs to be an option to either enable or disable it in the game's setting.

With subcategories becoming more and more popular, this is probably a nicer solution to the issue than what I've suggested in the original thread. It would also be desirable to exclude subcategories from this button, as well as an option to give this button a custom name. A good middle ground would need to be found for the name if a custom name isn't possible

I've already had some talk with ROMaster2, who said that he would know how to make such a button (but it's implementation might be a bit of a struggle).

What do you think of this idea? Please leave your comments and thoughts below!

I mentioned this in another thread and I really like this idea. An example is at the Paper Mario leaderboard, the All tab has every console in it.

Ironically, before I posted this, I was skimming through the other threads and found your post. I did come up with this completely separate from you, but it did encourage me to post my thoughts/ideas even more since there seems to be demand for something like this.

Glad you posted it ^^ it is much better explained! I am fully supporting this idea.

The game that I moderate (Cuphead) has three layers of subcategories for version, difficulty, etc. for most of the categories. One of our runners has like 30 WRs and another has like 10. It's crazy, but some would say they're necessary. One of the heated debates in our community is subcategories vs filters, many players prefer it one way or the other. This would be an amazing solution to the problem and I wholeheartedly support it, and I hope it gets taken seriously.

I don't have a name for the idea, unfortunately... although I think 'compress' is a good starting point.