Request for the mods: Please fix formatting
7 years ago
Greece
gamebrain
He/Him, They/Them
7 years ago

So a few games have formatting issues in terms of category names. Also the release date for every single game is wrong and seems to be the first day of they year. An example is this. http://imgur.com/a/2kvFr If you look at BBS, Terra Any% appears as Any%, Ven appears as All Stories Any% and so forth. Just please when you get the time, tend to this. (Also I wouldn't mind helping)

Virginia, USA

The release date thing is because speedrun.com only used to allow you to enter the year, not the full date release. They must have just added the full date capability recently (I didn't even know it existed until this forum post since there's no good way to stay on top of speedrun.com updates).

The BBS page was fixed to use subcategories at one point, so there must have been an issue that required a revert. However, it looks fine enough for the time-being to me when I check it now, unlike in your screenshot: https://i.gyazo.com/bdddbbba98a0fef6a40616163b4550ee.png

In general, try to use game-specific (rather than series) forums whenever possible for issues related to individual games, as there is currently no way for us to get email notifications about series forum posts, so response times may be longer. Thanks for bringing the issues to our attention.

Edited by the author 7 years ago
Antarctica

I'm curious about what you mean by "it looks fine for now". I don't really think you're in a position to make that decision as a person who doesn't run BBS/BBSFM.

I don't want this to sound rude, but these aren't your LBs and just sweeping this request under the rug with that kind of comment is kinda uncalled for. This is a valid complaint brought up here because the BBS LBs really do need to be updated to look more like the ones for BBSFMHD. Right now people really can't do runs of this game because there's no division of difficulty (and I know there are a few people who have discussed wanting to do runs of this game).

While I could understand turning down a request if it was for something drastic or some big change to the LBs for a game, but this isn't that. This is a simple request to bring the LBs up to standard across all the games regardless of how often they are run and that is absolutely justified. If the mods of this LB don't have the time to dedicate to things like this because they're busy with real life things, that's fine and people get busy, but then maybe we need to talk to Pac or somebody and get more moderators added/re-do the mods so that these kind of requests can be handled. I'm sure there would be a few people who would be happy to help and dedicate some of their free time to keeping these LBs up to standard.

Sorry if this post came off as antagonistic, but the comment of "they look fine for now" was really condescending to the person who made this request and it really rubbed me the wrong way.

Virginia, USA

I think you misunderstood me Timmi.

Gamebrain was talking about how the leaderboard categories were straight up incorrect, which they were for a short period because we were trying to fix them but had to revert. I was stating that our reverts were good enough for the interim, before we could fix them up properly.

Please read the thread more carefully next time, as I wasn't turning anything down, simply explaining what happened: that we tried to bring them up-to-date, ran into problems (which is what Gamebrain saw), and had to revert. We are still planning to bring them up-to-date, it's just unfortunate that SRcom had a major update while we were updating all the game pages, which is what caused the delay. I'm also trying to help other mods update these last few game pages on their own, that way I'm not the only one who knows how in case problems arise in the future. This takes time.

Edited by the author 7 years ago
Virginia, USA

And, for the record, we never dismiss any request without discussion. I'm glad gamebrain brought the release date thing to our attention, as it gave me a chance to update them all today.

Greece
gamebrain
He/Him, They/Them
7 years ago

For the record I was also talking for the lack of proper categories. Nevertheless, thank you for taking my comment into account a fixing it.

Tennessee, USA

They should be fixed now. Let us know if there is anything else though that might be missing that we let slip by.