Songs for leaderboards
5 years ago
United States

I have an idea for the leaderboards. Instead of listening to nothing while looking, we listen to something (a song) while looking. I would like to hear your opinions on this.

Canada

There's already tons of ways to listen to music, I don't think building that into the site would really be a valuable feature or use of site development time. Also, auto-playing music (or any sound at all) on a website is just generally considered very bad web design. If you want to listen to music while browsing the leaderboards, there's nothing stopping you from popping open your own playlist.

Pear, Habreno and 4 others like this
Essex, England

I wouldn't like being forced to listen to music, if what you are suggesting is for lbs to have custom music in the same way they have custom themes.

Pear, Gion915 and 5 others like this
Canada

Also, custom music would be ripe for abuse. Imagine your absolute least favorite song. Anytime you check the leaderboard for your current speed game, you now have to listen to an even worse parody of that song where they literally scream all the lyrics at mic-peaking volumes because somebody thought it would be a funny meme.

Yeah... no. Let's just not.

Pear, Habreno and 4 others like this
Washington, USA
EmeraldAly
She/Her, They/Them
5 years ago

Please do not turn SRcom into Myspace.

Please.

Habreno, blueYOSHI and 3 others like this
European Union

Yes, I fully support this idea! What a great twist it would be to hear Smash Mouth's All Star or Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up on every 2nd page! [small]/s[/small]

Pear, Habreno and 8 others like this
Antarctica

Put in headphones and listen to a YT playlist or something lol.

I really don’t know how adding custom music into the site provides anything of value. Only another alleyway for abuse and trolling.

Pear, Habreno and 4 others like this
France
xDrHellx
He/Him, It/Its
5 years ago

Yes ! Let's put Eurobeat on every leaderboard ! https://i.gyazo.com/e06ea92a10add06b1c42e1745ca704de.gif

Habreno, MASH and 3 others like this

Is there any value in having a feature that embeds a YouTube video on the left sidebar of the game page?

I'd use it for something like a trailer for the game, probably, instead of a soundtrack. Or a speedrun tutorial?

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United States

There could be also an option for muting the leaderboard song too. incase it drizes you crazy

England

When it drives you crazy*

Pear, Habreno and 4 others like this
Canada

@Cappy-Chu I'm pretty sure 99.9% of users would want to have all leaderboard music muted by default and would never consider unmuting it (at which point, why even bother having the feature at all). I think it's pretty clear that most of the user base does not want this, and it really isn't needed. Again, if you want to listen to music, you can listen to your own music, which is going to be infinitely better than whatever meme song the leaderboard mods chose that day.

It's a nice thought, but in reality there's just way too many problems it would cause, and at the end of the day it would just an inconvenience to everyone (at best) with no real benefits.

Edited by the author 5 years ago
Pear, coolestto and 2 others like this
United States

Ok. I understand. Thanks anyway

Pear and Habreno like this
United States

what if i wanna bombard my leaderboard's viewers with merzbow? :((((((