am I really seeing talk about "the" design and customization in here, while there's literally built-in tools for custom themes? The "new thread" box also uses the same UI design as the rules and the dropdown menus, so that actually is part of the design theme, which by the way, while not similar to the current trends, also has to be optimized for being able to show these very Forums and stuff like tables (leaderboards, profiles of every user, the frontpage) much more than any generic social media site.
And, while markdown isn't fully implemented yet, BBCode works just fine and does pretty much the same, examples can be seen in various sticky thread or if you want a specfic one, the rules of Portal make great use of the feature. The only thing missing here would be getting some sort of WYSIWYG editor, which there are probably various libraries out there, but currently everything's in a transitional period between BBCode and markdown, so that editor may be on the list, once BBCode is fully replaced.
I don't see how you came up with such a potentially, if not definitely, offensive sounding title, because this website has been very useable for years and the forums work fine for communication within communities, who probably are going to switch to Discord at some point either way, a lot of them have, for good reasons that are not the fault of this website. I'm just going to ignore the part of this thread where we bring up how syncing with external sites is work that isn't finished yet, because forcefully pressuring people into working on stuff will either bring no results or a super broken feature, that is better off deleted again anyways and I don't think anyone here wants that.
@CriscoWild #s 1-12 of your suggestions are pointless because a separate Mega Man site already exists. 16-23 are pointless because haloruns exists. The times are already being tracked on other sites. Why import them here?
Timmiluvs already phrased my thoughts on this joke of a thread. Get off your high horse and appreciate the site and the (read this slowly now) volunteers that are making the site as good as it is already.
additional note to those games mentioned they have community sites that were established for those games long before SRC so why would they have to come here instead? If they want to its up to them not us. SRC is just a hub to make it easier to collaborate with like minded people on the same or newer games should a general community place outside SRC does not already exist. If you ever tried to submit a game to SRC they ask if there is another place that does so for the game in question.
The whole point of speedrun.com is to be the one site that tracks everything. If the people who run this site don't get on board with their role in the speedrunning community soon and start acting like the sharks they're supposed to be, someone is going to eventually come in and fill the void. Speedrun.com has a great opportunity to corner the market on speedrun leaderboards and they're not capitalizing on it as well as they could be. They need to be acting like Walmart and trying to absorb everyone else and put all other boards out of business before someone ends up doing it to them.
SRC better start tracking flash games again, then.
Fill what void? Megaman? Halo? DKC? They already have their own dedicated leaderboards.
"...corner the market on speedrun leaderboards..." this has to be trolling at this point.
