This seems odd to remove. It feels soulless that so many websites get bought by a bigger company and slowly but surely all the good parts get removed. I keep hearing about "plans" but then people saying "there's nowhere to see what plans are going to be made". Why? Why is the donate button gone? Don't make ads when you already donated. Money this yadda yadda but... don't put it on the login page or in a way where it moves the page elements around. YouTube has lots of ads but at least without adblock you can still use it. I paid for the extra features and because I wanted to support the site, not to get rid of the ads.
The basic platform should be usable without paying for ads and ads are to support it if you like the product or want to support it. Reminds me how Splits.io put like literally 90% of their features behind a paywall. That didn't make me want to support it. I didn't plan to but it really put a wrench in my motivation to do so.
At least the osu! community has an extremely detailed changelog and a donation system where it's reasonable.
Transparency is crucial in these trying times...
@Imaproshaman unfortunately elo is just super secretive about what they do and they almost never read, let alone reply to a single forum post. People have been talking about a lot of the removed stuff, but unfortunately the answer is we just don't know what their plans are other than a few random statements suggesting they might be coming back. They seem to be making a ton of changes site-wide, such as removing content mods, 1-3 letter names, special characters, etc. Unfortunately they just don't seem to want to communicate with the current community much other than their random $20 gift card giveaway, and even then they might just ignore suggestions. Right now, most essentials things are staying in-tact, but other than the people at ELO, we deadass don't know where this site is headed right now. I think 99% of people on forums agree with you, it's just there's nothing we can really do.
Prepare for the worst; hope for the best.
@Imaproshaman Hey, did you heard about adblock? I am surprised no one advertised to you, how easy and cool is to simply use adblock. Also there is amazing thread with css script that remove bad spacing on adblocker. Here is how: https://www.speedrun.com/the_site/thread/trya8 Also good way to communicate is to use a feedback button, just mentioning, in case you didn't know.
Also this thread KEKW https://www.speedrun.com/the_site/thread/ff8x4
@Garsh, be humble and tell them, how good adblock is, don't let me down bruv Where is @Merl_ post, that would protect poor Elo of this harrasment? How dare you, post creator, point out Elo mistakes! How rude, irrogant! You better know your place or else!
I though @Merl_ and @Garsh are humble part of this great website and will help this poor, lost soul, disappointed...
Its fine, some people are just slower when it comes to brain development.
I also agree with the transparency issue. It is a community driven site and they are not approaching it from that angle at all. The first thing they should have gotten was a CM and keep on working with volunteers for now. The cooperate style they are going with is just terrible.
I still do hope that we will get some competition to src in the future, because competition would force them to work on improving the website or attempt to make legal moves. In which case they would lose all the remaining trust the community has in them.
[QUOTE=Imaproshaman] Reminds me how Splits.io put like literally 90% of their features behind a paywall. That didn't make me want to support it. I didn't plan to but it really put a wrench in my motivation to do so. [/QUOTE] splits.io is actually open source https://github.com/glacials/splits-io I am assuming it shouldn't be that hard to host your own instance where you don't need to pay for anything (actually I might look into this)
Maybe we should start using @Delekates block Seriously dude don't derail a conversation with a topic that should've been resolved and died off over a month ago
@Lieutenant_Boo Hey, did you heard about blocking? I am surprised no one advertised to you, how easy and cool is to simply use the block button. Also there is amazing thread with spammers that you can practice on. Here it is: https://www.speedrun.com/mcbe/thread/xyo0k Also good way to communicate is to use a report user button, just mentioning, in case you didn't know.
Also this thread KEKW https://www.speedrun.com/mcbe/thread/mvod6
@Garsh, be humble and tell them, how good blocking is, don't let me down bruv Where is @Merl_ post, that would protect poor @Delekates of this harrasment? How dare you, @Lieutenant_Boo, point out @Delekates mistakes! How rude, irrogant! You better know your place or else!
I though @Merl_ and @Garsh are humble part of this great website and will help this poor, lost soul, disappointed...
Oh no. 1 needed you to see his stream so he would get pushed over the requirements for affiliate. You cruel heartless bastard. I hope you're happy with yourself.
Was a bit busy so I didn't respond. Of course I use an adblock but the whole past $5 thing was supposed to be for that... A shame.
