Feedback thread
9 years ago
Antarctica

Along with what ROMaster said, most of the "fun, community building" happens in all of the discords for the games.

There's not much need to clutter forums with that kinda stuff when discords exist for most games and that's where everyone will be hanging out.

Granolant likes this
Massachusetts, USA

Not a fan of this new thingy: https://puu.sh/tIG2X/7a20266d76.png

If the site needs more cash to maintain itself, then there are ways to do that that aren't reminiscent of the big streamers tossing "Top D" on their streams just to get easy money.

The Wikipedia/Mozilla method of tossing notifications up top to remind people that the site is a service to the community, that it runs off of almost nothing but our donations, that it's extremely useful as a central hub for leaderboards (although it hasn't had any significant update in about 200 years), would be a much more thought-provoking and genuine way to fundraise for the site imo. Also having one of those donation meters like on SRL to indicate how much is needed.

Granolant, 39daph and 5 others like this
Valhalla

Not sure if it's been mentioned before, but adding XBL or PSN to as an option for social media/contacts would add another good way to contact someone

@Mhmd_FVC I've added a button to allow users to close the box. That should hopefully make it much more tolerable.

@Tron_Javolta Good idea. I'll try to remember to do that this weekend.

YUMmy_Bacon5, Gaming_64, and Noice like this
Pomorskie, Poland

http://i.imgur.com/9EFZ5b2.png

I posted this in the speedrun.com discord already, but I guess I can post it here too.

HighPriest likes this
Valhalla

a QoL thing I've thought about is having a speedrun showcase in your profile to show off a few speedruns you like most, especially since some people have tons of runs

United Kingdom

I can't see any way to sort the forums by most recent posts. Would be particularly helpful for the list of all games.

United Kingdom

Also maybe I'm blind but I can't see a way to report posts. There's 3 spam posts here and I don't know what to do about them.

South Australia, Australia

I think it'd be nice to have a specialised spot to put a Discord group for a game. So many games/series these days have specific Discords for speedrunning them now, but it can be near on impossible for a person new to a game to find them at all. Having a little thing somewhere, like another tab on the left when clicking on a game, or even just having the Discord icon below the game picture, like where it shows up on individual's profiles, would be nice.

On a similar note, I think it'd be great to have a separate tab on game pages that also details version differences. As a runner, can't tell you how many times I've felt dejected from running a game not because of differences, but because I don't even know what they are. And as I read leaderboards as well, and see different languages or versions or what have you, just having that information of what that actually translates to makes everything easier to read and understand.

You could argue that like both of those things could be stuck in like Guides or whatever, but I don't think people would actually do it unless there was a specific place for it. And it's fine if those things are left blank if they don't exist, I mean tons of games have the guides/resources tabs with nothing in them too. Anyway, just think it'd be neat as something extra.

Eira, CountCreep and 2 others like this
Poland

I've had issues changing categories in WR history (statistics) ever since I've discovered that functionality. Selecting different category yelds no results.

Also I'd like to support @hoXyyy 's request to fix Polish voivodeships

Idaho, USA

Is there not a way to get rid of rejected runs from my list? I rejected a run weeks ago and this just refuses to get off my screen and I don't see anywhere that I can clear it. Could there be something done that will allow for us to clear runs that have been rejected from the list?

Victoria, Australia
stoot
He/Him, They/Them
7 years ago

Rejected runs in "Pending actions" get moved from "Runs awaiting verifcation" to "Rejected runs", which disappear later on when they get classified as "Old" (which is viewable on the "Runs awaiting verification" page). I recommend not deleting the runs themselves, as it's a good idea to keep them around to keep track of whose runs you've rejected and for what reasons.

Edited by the author 7 years ago
England

I would like there to be some sort of Moderator Actions log in each run, if possible. Let's be honest, not all moderators get stuff right first time, and amendments are necessary to verified submissions to ensure they're actually accurate. It would be nice to see who did the initial verification, and then who amended it, such as "Run verified by X" followed by "Y changed the date/time of this run"

Oxknifer, HowDenKing, and Punchy like this
United States

If a layout change was just rolled out, PLEASE revert it ASAP. I can't find the site bugs thread or new layout thread, so here's the best place to post feedback on what I see.

Profiles: http://prnt.sc/ec5xo9 The sidebar on the left is unnecessarily huge and cramps run information into a smaller space. You know, the more important part of a profile page.

Forums: http://prnt.sc/ec5y4i Half of the page isn't even used.

Front Page: http://prnt.sc/ec5yjj "Latest Tweets" bar almost doubled in size, and as notated on the screenshot, can that bar be made optional? Even the previous size for it took up a lot of stagnant space that I personally didn't really care for the contents of.

United States

@Ihavenoname248 Looks like the Forums were fixed. Profiles are pretty bad at lower resolutions I agree.

As for the front page, I have a User Style that makes the runs the only thing on front page: http://pastebin.com/Awyx9zLR - May not be an 'official' solution, but it works for those who just want to see runs.

Idaho, USA

Klashik, I don't mean to delete the run itself, I mean to just take it off the page, I don't need to see a rejected run that I will never be looking at again for 6 months on the page, I just want to get rid of it from my personal page because it's an annoyance

Replace the video icon to Twitch or YouTube icon in leaderboard page. I tend to use speedrun as my bedtime before I drift off to sleep. I use Chromecast to cast it to my TV and watch it until I fall asleep. I use my phone to check through the site and find the game to watch. I know most of the game here mostly use Twitch and Twitch kept messing with Chromecast. And Amazon brought Twitch which have something to do with it, I believe. I would like to see which run have Twitch or YouTube, it will be easier to glance it and cast it without going through each run to see what video platform it used.

Ontario, Canada

Huh, I was actually just coming here to make exactly the same request. Replacing the generic "has video" icon with a site-specific one is a small but surprisingly useful change.

England

Further to my request above, would there be any possible way to add a "Disable Self-Verification" option in Game Settings? Self-verification is a contentious issue in a lot of communities, and having the option to disable it entirely would be nice for certain boards. It should obviously be disabled by default, otherwise for games with a single mod, that mod would then be unable to verify their own runs.