New site layout - Amendments #2
4 years ago
Bulgaria

@HowDenKing I don't know how anything I said meant that I "want to run a 2-class system where slower times are less worth".

Bulgaria

If by your reasoning it is a 2 class system to choose not to download and re-time every single run with a small moderation staff, then I guess you are right, but also nobody complains about this. You can't use blanket reasoning for every single game, board or community, it obviously doesn't work that way. It would simply be false to display 23.000 for a run that is not timed with millisecond accuracy and in some cases it is not trivial to simply time every run like we do for the 'high class' ones.

United Kingdom

Are you going to be adding a way to change the link colour separate from the theme? I like the new layout but the Super Metroid theme looks awful imo and I can't seem to find a way to fix it without having a super bright purple for the banner colour, which looks worse than the darker purple we currently use.

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United States

You don't necessarily have to download the runs to retime them, right? At least, SlushPuppy's retime tool is pretty handy (but I haven't compared retiming with the tool versus downloading a run).

Italy

Whenever you download a run, it gets fucked up with the frames. Much better to re-time directly from youtube with some tools where you just have to put first frame, last frame and fps.

@Imaproshaman I compared timing on youtube and downloaded video, you get very random differences.

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Bulgaria

I don't know what you could possibly mean by "it gets fucked up with the frames", but a properly downloaded video is more accurate since youtube rounds the framerate.

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Canada

@TalicZealot I have some experience with this, since I've always downloaded and timed all the runs on the boards I mod.

How you download runs does matter. The most extreme example is with the Twitch Leecher.

It does -something- that drastically alters the way it plays. Frames are just missing, and the video gets "smooshed" together, and then the video time is shorter than the actual run was.

I've always used JDownloader to rip runs from online for timing in premiere (How I prefer to time) because it doedn't seem to have this frame issue. (At least not with the basic tests I did. ) {Record 10 mins of livesplit->Upload it->Rip with JDownloader -> Time both the original and the ripped video.}

On the matter of displaying 000ms:

Just a preference on my part, but I would still like the option to not displayed ms. To me, not all my games require ms accuracy of the recordings, even if I am retiming them.

If .ms starts getting automatically displayed, then every run on the site now that doens't have it entered would be displayed as Xm XXs 000ms. Which would be untrue for almost every one of them.

So it seems like it would detract from things (Or, at the very least, make a huge amount of retiming work for existing boards)

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European Union

[quote=Legs]If .ms starts getting automatically displayed, then every run on the site now that doens't have it entered would be displayed as Xm XXs 000ms. Which would be untrue for almost every one of them.[/quote]

Which is why I proposed a setting, this would be off by default, resulting in the behaviour it has right now (no change to anything) if you want to always show ms, you can opt in with the setting, but it'll affect all runs in that category.

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Make a mobile app

Antarctica

The site works pretty well in a mobile browser, I can’t imagine a mobile app would be high priority or something that’s really necessary.

Also, this isn’t the thread for this, your comment might better be suited in the Feedback thread.

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Switzerland

https://www.speedrun.com/post/q1bli Can I get some input from a global moderator/designer on that one? Thank you very much.

Best regards

Oklahoma, USA

I know it was mentioned earlier in the thread that this feature got obsoleted by a newer version of jQuery and they the WR History charts are currently being worked on, but I was wondering if there were any updates on this?

Victoria, Australia

I don't know if it's been asked or addressed in previous posts, but ever since the site update, I've no idea on how to set up subcategories anymore. Adding variables just makes run variables, but I don't know how to change them into leaderboard subcategories. Can I still do that, or do I have to wait for some bug fixes to the site before that's available?

Canada

@Aun_El Click the 3 dots beside the variable -> Edit Variable -> Use as sub-category

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