The problem isn't in not being able to delete/edit them (correct me if I'm wrong), it's in not being able to reach them, since there are no profiles for guests - thus no way to view obsolete runs for them except through direct link.
Using the API is a temporary solution until something better is thought of.
You could try making 'ghost profiles' that gives guests with the same name a profile that has no login access. When someone comes to claim it, the runs get re-assigned to the real profile and the ghost is purged.
Low-priority request: Allowing for columns to be hidden by default in leaderboard settings, to look less cluttered in some situations. An example could be Metroid Prime which uses in-game time as their main measure, but don't require real time to be recorded. A game that has only one platform and region could hide the platform column. The only required columns would are rank, player, primary time, and date.
This could be used for games that have separate timing methods for categories or full-game/levels.
One slight inconvenience I have had, but I understand that it is still in the works and will be added eventually : The messaging system was talked about being introduced sooner or later over a year ago and its still not here :(
^: The srcom team is still a small group of volunteers. With Twitch and Twitter acting as a message system, it's not as high-priority as the timing update and others. I'm guessing this means it is still a while off.
recently I have seen a lot of "Failed To Load Video" tags for the Twitch player, but when you go to their highlights, the video is still there and loads fine. a little aggravating.
So is it now impossible to show multiple platform pbs on the site? I tried messing around with the options and the only thing that can be manipulated is to have different region times appear on the leaderboard at the same time. Before you could have your old pb from one platform on there and then have a new better pb on a different platform and it would keep both on the same leaderboard but would just give the old pb a dash mark instead of a ranking which was good. Apparently that's not a thing anymore and the dash mark only appears for region pbs instead of platform. In my opinion, it should go back to the way it was...unless I'm missing something and I can actually edit this somewhere.
Yeah, I tried messing around with that option but it didn't do anything. I don't know if it's just disabled now or what.
[quote=mobiusman]The WR history seems to only be picking up runs with no RTA for zero mission - I'm guessing this is because it reads the RTA as zero.[/quote]
I see this was fixed already. Thanks!
I guess this is just personal preference, but I'm not a fan of the way all categories are generated on the same WR history graph by default. I think it would make more sense to toggle on the categories you want rather than toggle off the ones you don't.
ManBun: It's a headache for us when handling day to day site matters as well. For your other post, Twitch messed up a bunch of links porting over to a new system a few months ago which changed a ton of video links. Most likely either the link is no longer valid, or Twitch's viewer is acting up.
ShadoWorm: Yeah this looks like it's not quite working right.
Racingmonster: Pac was looking at adding some of this when he pushes his next update.
ShadoWorm: Fixed.
mobiusman: Yeah, previously for determining it used whatever time was available, so for zero mission it would use the default real time where available, but IGT where not. Because IGT is so much lower, it would find a run with only IGT, mark that as the WR, then never finding a run with a faster time (since the actual faster runs all have real time available). Now it always uses the default time and ignores any runs without it set. Not ideal, but the better compromise.
For showing the categories: I wasn't sure which way to go; might end up changing it to the way you describe but I'm not sure yet.
The purpose of the video field is to provide a video, not to provide proof. What's wrong with using the comments for other forms of proof?
would it be possible to edit game requests? I made a small error on my recent one and did not realize it until it was to late.
Racingmonster: The purpose of the video field is directly tied to the "Videos only" checkbox. A screenshot is a lesser form of proof, which is relatively easily misrepresented. Use the comments for now. We shouldn't have screenshots in the videos field, because the runs don't have videos, and they would show like they do.
PeterAfro: Just submit another. (This could probably be improved a bit, but it's super low priority.)
A search bar for the forum would be nice... searching with google for a forum thread is just... wrong
Farming search out to Google is pretty standard. Searching a relational database isn't easy, and that's what most web apps use.
Please add pagination controls to the bottom of game and stream lists.
Current UX: Scroll down, reach the end, scroll up, hit next
It's agonizing
I have no knowledge how the backend database is structured, but would creating Leaderboard IDs help streamline things?
Keeping track of speedrunning records come down to two core things, the speedruns and the leaderboards. While speedruns can have a large number of variables (Platform, Platform version/edition, Game, Game version/edition, category [what the run does]), leaderboards combine different runs if they met the conditions. This means that if a run meets all the requirements of a leaderboard, it's added to it. This means from the database's point-of-view, leaderboards are the collection/query of runs that that meet a criteria, sorted and ranked based on a leaderboard's settings.
How it gets organized/managed on the frontend is its own issue. Since leaderboards are technically independent of their game(s), they'll need a place to stay. Most leaderboards won't have complications since they're tied to one kind of game, but for games with leaderboards that are both combined and separate (eg Any% allows two versions but 100% has them separate) it gets tricky. The 'games' on the website are a very effective method of organizing them, since they don't have to have strict definitions of game/platform/region/etc; they're like the leaderboards in being a collection/query of runs, but instead, leaderboards. Once in a 'game' they can be customized how they're organized and displayed (tabs/sub-tabs for full-game, tables for levels, etc).
A benefit to this would let users add PBs with leaderboards not being displayed, so as an example I could submit a run for Super Metroid that would display in my profile, but wouldn't appear on any visible leaderboard (rank would display as nothing). This would also address the difficulty category problem I mentioned a while ago.
There are some problems with this, but with possible solutions. • If leaderboards are independent of 'games', that would mean moderators would be tied to them. They could be inherited by the 'games' they're categorized into. For leaderboards shared across 'games', most of said 'games' would have the same moderators so there's no major conflict. • People can individually make their own leaderboards, without needing to ask moderators for a 'game'. This is stopped by the moderators deciding to allow the leaderboard on the 'game'. If they attempt to make a new 'game', site moderators would catch those, and if it manages to still slide by, they can be contacted. Whether or not a leaderboard deserves a spot on the site is a problem that exists now, but this could potentially help relieve that. • How a 'game' manages all the leaderboards could turn into a swamp if there's a large number of them (Portal Ball has 7058). 'Game' and leaderboard metadata would let them be grouped them together so they can be edited in bulk if necessary.
Neat idea.
Not sure what to think of that. I have to admit my first thought is to consider abuses, and I think there would be many.