Feedback thread
9 years ago
France

Please give the option of removing streams from showing up automatically on the frontpage of SRC. Right now the twitch/speedrun thing in particular is pretty much 24/7? (or close to) and effectively acts like an automatic video ad (and I mean let's be honest that's the goal isn't it). Using SRC to promote your own stream to this extent and force it down everybody's throats is heavy-handed and unacceptable in my opinion.

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Canada

[quote=Kirua]Using SRC to promote your own stream[/quote]

Worth noting that it isn't their stream, it's GSA's, but yeah nonetheless having anything autoplay on the front page is not good. This has been brought up many times, and if I remember right it was even fixed at one point (but was reverted almost immediately), and the issue hasn't been acknowledged since.

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Somalia

The variables page in Edit game needs a complete overhaul, it's a usability nightmare right now, even more so than before the new layout.

First off, the binary choice between adding a variable to either all or only one category is nor very useful. If you want to add it to many, but not all categories, you end up having to make multiple copies of the same variable then add it individually to each category and the page just blows up and becomes hard to navigate.

Generally everything just takes up too much space. When you add a simple yes/no variable then the whole page from left to right is mostly empty. That empty space is meant to be occupied by the few variables that come with rulesets, however even in those cases it's fairly useless as it only shows you the first few words: https://puu.sh/Emp4T/f7ab146fe5.png Also a single variabale with 10 elements (for example anything you'd allow user defined for) will take up a most of the page already. Maybe it would be a good idea to be able to hide and fold out the list of variables, so as to allow to see more than 2 variables on screen at a time.

Sometimes the arrows to move an elements up and down the list don't work at all, instead just move it to some random position. I think optimally it would just be drag and drop instead, at least on desktop, and I don't know who would be daft enough to try and use this stuff on mobile.

While these aren't on the variables page, timing methods suffer from the same problem of not being able to choose what parts of the game they apply to. Often you want RTA for full-game and IGT for ILs. But you can only activate the for the whole game. You can write it into the rules as much as you want but people will keep submitting RTA to ILs and IGT to full-game runs even if none such things exist. I'm tired of doing constant janitor work for people who cannot read rules, when this problem would be solved by simply making timing methods category specific or at least putting it on the category tab and splitting it between full-game and ILs.

Lastly IL categories cannot be set as level specific AT ALL. If you happen to have two different types of ILs for your game and only one of them needs a split in categories, you're out of luck because every IL is gonna have it.

I don't know what else might be wrong with all of this, but it's hard to even find out as everything is such a mess. It would be nice if more focus could be given to leaderboard moderation features on a site than is presumably about making and moderating leaderboards. Nothing along these lines has changed in the 4 years i have used this site.

On an unrelated note, it would be nice to get a time frame filter for leaderboards, so you can get an impression of what the LB looked like 2 years ago, or maybe all runs that were posted in the last year.

Virginia, USA

I have two issues at this current time:

  1. The "Games" list was changed to be less thorough. I get that it makes the site look cleaner or whatever, but it's at the cost of functionality. What if I only want to see games that were released in 2012? What if I want to see games in the order that they were added to the site? What if I want to see which games have the most currently active players? I can't do any of those things anymore. All that this change has done is dumb down an extremely useful feature of this site.

  2. For whatever reason, the "empty" text next to a category's tab was either removed or hasn't been re-added to the new site layout. It's not like this isn't possible to do; @HowDenKing gave me some CSS code to add the "empty" text back in. The code works, but it's weird to have to use a separate Chrome extension just to have a quality-of-life feature (that was already part of the old layout) present. The "empty" text is useful because it lets someone quickly look at a category (or subcategory) and see if it's empty or not. I have no idea why it hasn't already been put back.

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Canada

In games that use both real time and in-game time (or real time and load-removed time, etc), the "Time" field on the run submission page should say "Real time" for extra clarity. https://i.imgur.com/1NMZPO9.png

Edited by the author 4 years ago
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Switzerland

Just wanted to say that I really like how you implemented the new feature to enlarge embedded videos. It's not the default option because that would be terrible for moderating purposes, but still easily accessible in case you want to use it. It also looks really good in general.

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North Carolina, USA

Can we get uuuuuuuhhhhhh WR History charts back

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New Mexico, USA

Yeah Can we?

United States

patience is always good

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São Paulo, Brazil

can we tho?

Canada

For Filters, it should only show variables that apply to the category you currently have selected, instead of showing every variable on the game. Since it shows everything (and since we often have duplicate variables), you end up with wonky situations like this: https://i.imgur.com/zHKMaq3.png

Allowing us to apply variables to more than one category would also alleviate this issue.

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Netherlands

Got an idea for run verification: Moderators are obviously not saying every "I'm checking this run now". So within the Goose Game community, we've had a few instances where moderators were checking the same run.

Would be cool if it said "Moderator X is currently on this page" so that no 2 mods are going to start verifying a long run together

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France

Can we get a search option for emulator allowed games and/or an option to see official console only games?

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Netherlands

@Riekelt Its possible but it would probably be best implemented when the site would allow realtime updating without manual refreshing. Because even if a mod could sort of output a notification for the other mods that the mod in question is currently already reviewing a particular pending run, there could still be instances (probably a tiny margin but it can happen) of two or more mods literally clicking the same run at the exact same moment possibly ending up still "locking" the same run.

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Santa Cruz, CA, USA
TheRealVincentio
She/Her, They/Them
4 years ago

If possible I'd like the option to choose whether the current leaderboard times for a particular game are added to "Time w/ loads" or "Time w/o loads" when updating a game to have separate load times. Currently it adds all times on the board to "Time w/o loads" no matter which method you choose as the default timing method (which I assume is used for sorting the runs, but I'm not to sure). I'm very un-enthused about potentially having to manually swap the times from one to the other for all 400 odd runs on the ASAMU boards.

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I have a simple piece of feedback, because it is annoying to see everywhere:

On pages like:

https://www.speedrun.com/games#platform=PC (in the drop down menu). https://www.speedrun.com/resident_evil (in the drop down menu) https://www.speedrun.com/factorio/run/yj3xlxoz (in the bottom) https://www.speedrun.com/factorio/full_game#Any (in Platform column and in Filter -> Platform, as well on the left side under thumbnail)

replace all references to "PC" by "Windows" or "MS Windows"

PC is very broad term, and covers a lot of things, in generally anything that is x86 with semi standard parts like ISA or PCI. It can be DOS, it can be OS/2, it can be Windows, or Windows NT, or Mac, or Linux, or BSD, or FreeDOS, or DosBox. It can even be differently standarized hardware, like PS/2, or PCJr. One can consider PS4 and XBox One a PC from technical point of view too. So, I really think it is bad idea to use term PC to denote Platform, because it is not specific enough, and also not respectful to Linux and mac users. Normal Linux x86 machine is definitively a "PC", but for some reasons it is not classified as such here - it has own category. Separate category for Linux makes sense, but saying Windows == PC is simply bad.

I guess having Windows and DOS (which could be DosBox, or other emulator, possibly ones built into Windows itself) category would be nice.

Linux is also a bit too broad, as Linux can mean many things - Linux native games, Windows games played with Wine, DOS games played with DosBox, Bochs, or KVM; webbased games; emulators for countless systems (from NES, MAME through Wii U to PS3) used on Linux, etc.

Thank you.

Edited by the author 4 years ago
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Canada

Guides should be able to have multiple authors. Sometimes it's a team effort. Should also be able to set/edit authors. I've had to add guides to the site that were created by others, and I've also occasionally updated guides where the original author's content was completely obsolete.

On a completely unrelated note... I'm randomly noticing a bunch of new features being added to the site. This is fantastic, but I'd appreciate if new features, bug fixes, or other changes were documented somewhere. It's a little weird being blindsided by a new button I've never seen before, or a new option that I'd actually want to use.

Edited by the author 4 years ago
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United Kingdom

Can there be a note under the "Community website / wiki" field clarifying the purpose of it?

Netherlands

@Randomno What would there be to clarify about a community website / wiki? Seems pretty self explanatory to me.

Edited by the author 4 years ago
United Kingdom

I'm glad it is so obvious to you, but if you explain to me what the intended purpose of it is, I'm sure I can find many leaderboards where the purpose was not clear to the moderator.

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