Hey guys, I know most of you have already expressed your disappointment with the newest update. I generally like updates to a website, as it gives the website a new, fresh look. But those updates also need to be useful.

I have been speedrunning for almost 10 years, back when every community still used their own website or used Google Sheets.

I always loved the idea for a central hub for speedrunning. I talked a lot with Pac, he's a great guy and the idea he had for speedrun.com was amazing. A central hub for all leaderboards and tutorials, ressources, etc. Back when Pac was still in charge, I don't think their were any major problems, at least I don't remember any. And that is the major problem.

Personally, I think that most of the time when a website like this gets sold, problems like these start to occur. I don't think that ELO is bad per se. I have seen the other websites of ELO's portfolio, and I think they offer great ressources to their respective games. But here is the main point: I don't play any of these games, so I don't know what a good resource website needs.

A resource website should be ran by people who are knowledgable about the game/the main point of the website. Seeing as no one on ELO's time has ties to the speedrunning community, that's where I see the biggest problem.

If they look at their most recent tweet, where they ask for feedback on their newest update, you can tons of people who are respected in the speedrunning community sending multiple times with all sorts of issues with the newest update.

Of course all of this can be fixed in another update, but why let it even come this far?

And this is why I wanted to post this in the forum, hoping that someone from ELO's team might see this: GET BETA TESTERS! This should be so obvious. People who have no ties to the speedrunning community, should not be in charge of a speedrun resource website/speedrunning leaderboards. They have no idea what the community needs.

Get Beta testers. Show them what you have been working on, let them give you valuable feedback if that one fancy new feature you are working on is a good addition to the website.

The leaderboards are a mess with the most recent update. So many issues that someone who had the slightest clue about speedrunning would not have done. If you don't know what the community needs, let someone else be in charge.

The ads are also disgusting. I understand that a website with so many visitors need stable servers, and those servers are expensive, but 4 ads and an auto-playing video in the sidebar, makes it look like ad-ware. Find a better way of being able to pay for the servers. Profit should not be the number 1 priority on a community resource website.

I love the idea of SRC, but with how it has been going since the ELO takeover, it's getting ran into the ground. And if there are no significant changes with how this website is being ran, I don't see it be the central hub for speedrunning for much longer.

So I am asking you ELO staff, sit down with some speedrunners, and have some in your team for executive decisions, otherwise I don't see SRC survive for much longer.