Feedback thread
9 years ago
United States

An obnoxious message should popup if a run is edited and both the date and time (and video if applicable) telling the user to submit a new run instead of editing older ones. From what I can tell, when the verification date is before the run date, it's the result of an older run edited for a newer run...

United States

The borders on game covers slightly shrink the image, for some reason. Example: https://i.imgur.com/REF1Q7o.png

It can be fixed with: img.border{ border:0 !important; outline:rgba(204, 204, 204, 0.75) 1px solid; }

I think the look of the IL pages could be improved with a slight border between each board, and the min height be the same as a cell with a run. http://i.imgur.com/QRiusei.png

This is what I use for that: tr.levelrow { height: 51px !important; border-top:rgba(204, 204, 204, 0.25) 1px solid !important; }

tr.levelrow > td.linked {
    border-left:rgba(204, 204, 204, 0.25) 1px solid !important;
}

tr.levelrow > td.linked.center {
    vertical-align: text-top;
}

Edit: Unofficial games (rom hacks/mods/etc) should be allowed to appear on the front page if there's enough players running said game, like 5 or more.

Edited by the author 7 years ago
Texas, USA

https://i.imgur.com/YDpOuct.png

In the WR History Statistics, I like that you can hover over the run for information. There are lots of good details there. However, it's hard to navigate to runs in the past that we are interested in seeing for glitch discovery or entertainment, as they are sometimes obsoleted. It would be awesome if we could click on a run in the graph to go see it!

I hope that addition sounds like a good idea to you :)

Edit November 2019: Thanks for adding this feature!

Edited by the author 4 years ago
Granolant and IdahoJacket like this
United States

I had the idea a few days ago to have a button for users to switch the leaderboard view to list the historic world records. That'd let you see the runs without hunting them.

Oxknifer likes this
Texas, USA

Holy shit ROM, that's brilliant! :) Much harder to implement though...

Edited by the author 7 years ago
Brazil

What about a way that we can report users on forums who harass people or report people who cheat on speedruns??

United States

If you feel like being fanciful, add an easy formatting option to be able to quickly link games/users or so. Typing something like Super Mario 64 or @SgtKabukiman would change it to Super Mario 64 and SgtKabukiman. If it fails the look-up it wouldn't link anything.

Automatically linking without a formatting option would probably be too intensive on the server and would have a lot of false positives, especially for users.

Germany

the profile page can be improofed by adding a uplay name input field

North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

I don't know if this "feature" is available already. (If, yes I didn't find it after searching for weeks)

It would be nice, to exclude certain categories from global sub-categories. Else a game with 4 Main Categories and 4 Sub-Categories which apply to only 3 of them is a mess to keep an overview in the "Edit Game" Tab.

Or a better way to associate the Sub-Categories to the Categories. Thank you for the time reading this.

Oxknifer likes this
Texas, USA

I've been waiting for more people to bring Trent's point up. An example where subcategories need to be separated is in the game Color Switch. The game has several modes that all have different ranges of levels. Some modes only have 25 levels, while others exceed 100. The moderator has organized the game so that records can be held for each mode on levels 1-10, 11-20, 21-30 and so on. A mode with only 25 levels should be capped at 21-30 (or 21-25), while others are capped at higher values. Anyone have a better example?

TrenteR_TR likes this
California, USA

Hi, I wanted to discuss the leaderboards for White Tiles 4: Piano Master. I'm not sure where else I would bring this up.. After checking out the game for myself I see that most of the game's modes are not "speedruns" but rather high score competitions, which the mods of the boards have implemented by choosing "ascending timer" and putting the game score in the millisecond field. Surely high score leaderboards like this belong on something like Cyberscore, not a Speedrun leaderboard site. There are a few categories that would qualify as speedrunnable but as I said they are extremely outnumbered by the ones that aren't.

Malphas likes this
United States

@TrenteR_TR @Oxknifer The next big update will have this option. You'll be able to highlight which categories you want to apply a sub-category to.

@Dugongue The site plans on adding support for score leaderboard, so what they're doing isn't terribly absurd.

Oxknifer likes this
England

In addition to the concerns I've brought up about moderation and verification, I think it would be a good idea if "Automatically verify run" was unticked by default in the verification page. It's too easy for a moderator to accidentally leave this ticked when submitting a run, and self-verification should NOT be the default position. I've accidentally done this a few times, and immediately re-submit the run for verification.

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Michigan, USA

@Dugongue You are the moderator for Rampage for the NES. Can you please check the forum for that game. I do not know of any other way to contact you so I just forum stalked you.

Germany

I would like to be able to have the features of both, using an extra variable as subcategory (-> Nice buttons to switch between values quickly) and not doing that (-> Be on 'any' value by default and have the ability to select the 'any' value in the filter-menu)

It may not seem good for most games, but I feel like for Diablo II ( http://www.speedrun.com/d2lod ) it would be ideal to have both. I really love the ability to see how the classes compare to each other in the leaderboard and I have had people ask me to add the nice buttons the Diablo1 and 3 games use (-> [x] Use as subcategory -> no 'any' value possible)

It would be cool if that could be added/changed in the future :3

Oxknifer and ROMaster2 like this
United States

One thing I've noticed, that's a small pet peeve of mine, is when you search for games they're ordered by something seemingly random. For example if you type in "Super Mar" the first result on the drop-down list is Super Mario Advance: Super Mario Bros. 2, even though that is clearly not the largest game starting with "Super Mar," of which is Super Mario 64. In fact Super Mario 64 is eighth on the list, behind fan games such as Super Mario 63.

I would propose to have the the search result list have the games with the highest number of runs closer to the top, so it's easy to access larger games. If possible maybe it could be customizable from your settings page.

IdahoJacket and ROMaster2 like this
United States

To let series moderators customize how the games appear on the series page, have the list of games underneath the moderators that's similar to the Followed games settings for users -- along with a checkbox next to each game to show/hide them. For the database, there can be a integer for SeriesPosition and boolean for Visible. If nullable boolean is available, null can be used for an 'auto' option to automatically set visibility if it has a derivative gametype.

Really, nullable boolean can be used in other areas of the site as 'auto': User settings • Show misc runs by default on your profile -- Shows if there aren't any non-misc runs or the ratio of misc to non-misc runs is really high. • Appear on Streams page while streaming -- The stream page can use an overhaul, but set this to only appear if the user has a run in literally anything. Game settings • Default view -- Prefers full-game but shows level instead if there's only ILs or the IL-to-FG player ratio is really high. (If the mods dislike it, they can check to show FG or IL.)

United Kingdom

The period got included in your link, the correct link is this.

EDIT: Ninjad by edit :(

Edited by the author 7 years ago
Oxknifer likes this
Minnesota, USA

For alerts about "Your PB has been beaten", it ought to be only when someone passes you, not simply any run that's faster than yours. It doesn't do you much good to find out that someone who was already faster than you is still faster.

Edited by the author 7 years ago
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