Can we get a way to add "likes" or comments to speedruns? I'm not saying we make this a social platform. It just makes sense that we should be able to comment on runs.

_ "So&So get's a new WR in Such&Such" ¤367 thumbs up¤

"hey great job! Well done!" "WR HYPE!" "I knew you could do it!" _

Some of these runners don't have a Twitter account. Or maybe they don't stream regularly, so it's hard to catch them online to congratulate them or to add some encouragement.

Adding an option to send personal messages would also be a great feature. Sure you can ask questions on forums, but it's sometimes easier to just message someone directly.

It should be in the settings whether or not to allow people to message you or not. If you don't want private messages, that's fine, turn it off, no more PMs. But I'd argue that the vast majority of people wouldn't mind getting a question here or there.

All this interactivity would have some downsides. I understand that. We'd have the occasional troll, which is why a "report" feature would need to be added. Which is pretty standard. It would also mean a little more work for mods and admins. To deal with those reports. Website bugs and such aren't that difficult to overcome, especially when the community is made of techies. But overall, the good would heavily outweigh the bad.

Just some basic suggestions, nothing too crazy. This would really add some personal interaction to the site. This is a great community. And from what I've seen over the past year is that most people are encouraging and want to add hype to accomplishments. We should encourage users to do so with comments and thumbs ups.

Comments on individual runs has been discussed quite often already, it'd either require mods to moderate each run (which is insane) or some other way that would prevent spam/ads/bots/haters from abusing the mod-free realm. when the messaging feature releases sometime in 3099 you'll be able to message everyone directly.

Personally, I don't see a reason for a "thumbs up" button on specific runs, but I also don't see anything against it either, as long as there's no notification for it.

Personal messages will be coming eventually, we just dont know when.

And the commenting on runs thing has been brought up many times by various people and a lot of people think that it will create more of a problem then it's worth. Reactions like a simple "like" seems pointless since it just adds clutter and no value, and comments would create a moderation nightmare. I can envision many scenarios where people will go around to random runs on the site and spam them with memes, copy pasta, inappropriate messages, etc (or the spam bots would have a field day). This would create a problem for all of the game moderators to try and constantly clean up/keep an eye on.

Forums and Discords provide the best way to ask questions about a run, and I would say that if a runner has no social media links on their profile, then they probably don't want much interaction with people so I don't see them responding to questions asked in a comment on their run (if they even enable it).

Me after watching a WR run