I think it would be nice if this site acted a bit more like a social media site. You could allow players to post things to their profiles, allow games to have a community page (better than just forums), and the ability to actually upload videos to the site itself. You could have an explore page that lets you view the most popular runs, most liked runs, newest runs, and perhaps runs deemed important by mods (in a popular game, and/or an important milestone or new tactic). People would be able to comment under the runs. I imagine a combination of Facebook, YouTube, Discord, and of course this site. What do you guys think? What could be added?

Maybe you could have community pages that encompass more than just a specific game as well. Maybe you could have a PC gaming, N64 gaming, and Mobile gaming communities that would have their own mods and such. It would be cool to have some sort of Steam integration, where you could have a page that allows you to race another player in the same game, and the site would make you start at the same time.

sounds cool

I don't like the idea of speedrun.com becoming another social media site, that kinda puts the focus away from speedrunning

Yeah everything would have to be game related. It would also make it possible for site mods to audit chat logs, if needed, if everything stayed on this site.

I think that speedrun.com should have an app.

this is really mostly just a leaderboard website like said earlier we dont need a generic social media site #444444

and @ActuallyElite the site works fine enough on mobile in the browser

@ActuallyElite what do you want from an app that you cannot get from a website?

@Dare I wouldn't like that, I think just the forums is enough. Id rather they focus their effort on improving the speedrunning functions of the site and leave the social stuff to platforms that focus specifically on that issue. Also allowing video uploads would be stupid expensive for the site since it'll take LOTS of space.

Social Media is a curse that I wish wouldn't exist. We really do not need more than we already have.

My opinion on this situation is that I'd like it if we had just a few more features that you see in social media such as following users, but I wouldn't like it if they added too many social media related features. This is a website about submitting speedruns after all, so they shouldn't turn it into a wanna-be Twitter that's about speedrunning and they should keep that part of the site intact.