Subcategory issues
1 year ago
Uusimaa, Finland

ISSUE 1: Currently the site allows a subcategory to be enabled for either every single main category, or for exactly one of them. Example: On RimWorld, for most main categories it makes sense to have a selector on biome/scenario, but not for all of them. We have it currently selected for all main categories, which causes the issue that we get four separate leaderboards for every new main category. This is a suboptimal situation. SUGGESTED SOLUTION: I wish that the site rather had a checkbox list on the subcategory edit screen, so that one can choose which main categories (plural) this subcategory applies to.

ISSUE 2: A related problem is when we have a subcategory that has a loose “regular” option (no restrictions) and a stricter option such as “naked brutality” (difficult starting scenario) — and then we get a run that qualifies for the “naked brutality” subcategory, but is also a WR in the general subcategory. Our current solution is to manually submit a clone of the run for the regular subcategory, with reference to the user’s submission in the tighter subcategory. This is suboptimal. We could make separate main categories instead of using subcategories, but that would not solve the problem. Similar problem occurs on other games too. For example, sometimes a minimal% run might be also an any% WR. SUGGESTED SOLUTION: A checkbox list ­— allow moderators to choose multiple subcategories or even main categories, to which the submitted run applies.

Edited by the author 1 year ago
Minnesota, USA

submitting a restricted run to both the restricted and unrestricted categories is cringe. just do another run.