Feedback thread
9 years ago
Texas, USA

Under -social- in Edit Profile, it would be very nice to have a space for an optional comment.

I went on a trip for all of July and instead of displaying my Discord username on my profile, I wrote the message: "Hey all, I'll be out of town until July 25th and will not have much time to moderate. Please be patient!"

Hovering over the Discord icon on my profile showed that message.

I think it would be simple to implement this custom message system by adding an icon shaped like a notepad or speech bubble. It would be useful for all moderators and could be a mod-only feature if there's a worry about abusing it. However, I don't see it being abused more than it being helpful.

Edit November 2021: Thanks to the site staff for adding the ability to have a bio on your profile!

Edited by the author 2 years ago
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Québec
  1. @Oxknifer +2 to that! It's what I came here for.

  2. More social media options for your user (or at least the ability to add more than 1 website). I personally don't want to give out my real name/location, which would happen in the case if I link my Instagram, Facebook, etc. I had to make alts for Reddit and Twitter, now yes, this did work, but never the less.

Edited by the author 4 years ago
Imaproshaman and Oxknifer like this
United States

Thank you HDK for taking the time to complie the list. 😄

Edited by the author 4 years ago
6oliath likes this

Can the streams section of the site start including Youtube/Mixer streams?

Oxknifer likes this
Texas, USA

Guide archiving and organizing would be a useful feature.

Take a look here, for instance: https://www.speedrun.com/smb1/guides

  • I'm sure not all of these guides are modern and archiving the obsolete ones would be helpful for new players.
  • Sorting of guides is currently alphabetical. It would be much better to organize by date updated.
  • Categorizing guides might also be useful. Allowing mods to make guide categories would be nice.

SMB1 is just an example. This would be useful srcom-wide.

Poland

I hate that when adding a new level to IL Leaderboard, like by update it's added to the game (and the game doesn't have a fixed order of levels to play so it isn't based on numbers but alphabetically) and I add a new level, I have to click "move up" like 200 times on average because the game currently has around 400 levels

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Madison, WI, USA

@Tron_Javolta and I discussed this briefly in the Discord, so I thought I'd add it here:

In some cases, a game requires a variable to be applied to some, but not all (or one) category. The current way around this is to make a copy of the variable for each category that requires it. So if you have a variable called "Character" that applies to 9 of your 10 categories, you must create 9 "Character" variables with the same values (which is obnoxiously repetitive to create).

The issue this creates is that each copy of the variable is shown in the Filters dropdown, which forces mods to make each name uniquely named to be able to tell them apart in the Filters menu. This also clutters up the Filters menu with all the duplicate variables.

Examples of this can be seen on these leaderboards: https://www.speedrun.com/Super_Smash_Bros._for_3DS#Classic_5.0 (Character variable) https://www.speedrun.com/mkwextracategories/full_game#Cups (Items variable)

A solution to this would to allow a variable to apply to n-number of categories, instead of one-or-all. For example, when editing a variable, editing the Category value brings up a checkbox list UI that allows you to select any categories it applies to, with All Categories as a separate toggle option.

I understand this would probably cause a bunch of data structure raucous, but I wanted to get it down in writing so it can be planned for the future. Thanks!

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Gelderland, Netherlands

I got refered to this thread, so I'll link my thread there: https://www.speedrun.com/The_Site/thread/25cdl/1#ovrig

In short: I think it'll be a good idea to be able to sticky/pin/sort the runs on your profile. I run a bunch of games I don't take seriously, but mainly want to be profiled as an MKDD runner, but because of infrequent PRs, those runs are dropping down on my profile. I'd love to be able to pin them to the top of my profile so I don't need to worry about that :)

United States

for one board i moderate on the level leaderboard is what i would say a checkpoint to checkpoint leaderboard and i think it would be cool if i had an option of renaming it from level leaderboard to checkpoint leaderboard.

Gaming_64 likes this
United States

I mean it says "last updated" on it, but I agree that does sound super helpful. :D

Texas, USA

Under "Edit Game" > "Game types"

"Note: game types can only be set by content mods. Use this thread to request changes."

The thread is locked, so perhaps this link should be replaced.

Edit: Thanks for the follow-up, Daravae!

Edit April 2020: Thanks for unlocking the thread!

Edited by the author 3 years ago
Texas, USA

It's been mentioned before -- I think it'd be awesome if we could have a list of all notifications we've received in one place. And searchable.

Edit November 2019: Thanks for adding https://www.speedrun.com/notifications ! I'd really like to see this page be searchable :)

Edited by the author 4 years ago
Netherlands

@Oxknifer Is known to us and has been forwarded to Pac. Editing that page can only be done by Admins so unfortunately Full Mods cannot fix that link.

Edited by the author 4 years ago
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North Carolina, USA

Idea from fishmcmuffins: require 2-factor authentication for all accounts that moderate at least one game. Today is what- the fifth time accounts have been hacked? Simply requiring password resets each time it happens clearly isn't enough.

Edited by the author 4 years ago
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United States

you see, introducing 2FA would give the people an actually useful feature that the people want, and clearly that's not what this site is going for

Tebt_W likes this
Canada

@MyLittleWalrus 2FA is being seriously considered by site staff, but implementing it takes quite a lot of work so it would likely be a while before it would be ready. They're considering other short-term alternatives to prevent the leaderboard vandalism as well.

@crash do you actually have anything to add here or are you just taking a cheap shot because you think it makes you look clever or something

Edited by the author 4 years ago
Quivico and Imaproshaman like this
United States

when your site has had several security breaches in the past year alone and lacks numerous features that are 100% standard on nearly all websites, some of which have been promised for literal years at this point™. when plenty of people within this community are plenty aware of how poorly managed this site is and the people who run it

nah keep blaming your user base while never actually fixing any of the major problems with this site

enINFAMOUSvy likes this
Canada

Yeah... whatever dude. Try creating and maintaining a website with hundreds of thousands of users, massive data sets, a gigantic and constantly growing list of widely varying (and often conflicting) requirements, all with like 2 volunteer developers working on it in their spare time, then come whine about how the site is "poorly managed" and "lacks numerous features".

I understand being frustrated with the slow progress of development, but being snarky and belligerent anytime there's a snag is uncalled for and doesn't help or solve anything.

Edited by the author 4 years ago
United States

here, i've calmed down a bit and i understand that things like 'security breach' aren't exactly the best terms to be using in this scenario

but isn't it at least kinda fucked that every other month some leaderboard gets hijacked and people just have to assume that they need to change their passwords again? yes i know reusing passwords is bad and that doesn't stop people from doing it, but telling people to change their passwords isn't a security measure, and there's no excuse to not have any with a site as big as this, especially when there's some major case happening this frequently. it would be nice to know for certain whether or not my account has actually been compromised or at potential risk, rather than just having to assume the worst. people want actual change. they want to see these features implemented. not even more empty promises from a site that has already been the subject of plenty of controversies in the past regarding how it's run. it's really not a secret at this point that speedrunners have been growing more sick and distrusting of this site. shifting the heat onto the user base and using the "you do it yourself" excuse isn't a very good look, and shows absolutely no sign that you're interested in actually fixing the issues with this site.

Iowa, USA

@crash

"but isn't it at least kinda fucked that every other month some leaderboard gets hijacked and people just have to assume that they need to change their passwords again?"

Isn't it kinda fucked that people reuse the same passwords or simply add a single digit to the end of their old passwords? People should be taking care of their accounts on any website, how hard is it to update your passwords on a regularly basis this is 2019 and you are going to tell me people are too illiterate about security even at the most basic level? Has it gotten to that point where people just don't care enough about themselves...to take care of themselves by just updating their passwords again, on a regularly basis? Just for something as simple as this? People literally have actually told us they have either reused passwords or "changed/added a single digit" to the old one.

Any service/website is going to tell you to always update your passwords. If there was an actual security breach what makes you think some idiot would be wasting his time with user accounts when he could have total control over the site by acquiring one of the admins accounts?

Again, you don't seem to be reading, us Fmods cannot add these features but its something we absolutely want added even Volvagia wants 2FA added but damn dude its still just two people trying to get stuff done. Of course we see what people want, people want a lot of things on this site and I agree that sometimes they are just far and inbetween. I swear there was a thread on here talking about 2FA, a lot of people weren't sure how they wanted it done but it seemed that it is something they want as well.

We don't care about the damn controversies, people are going to say shit and whatever they want and we aren't going to be able to change their minds most of the time, we aren't telling people to "you do it yourself" either, there is interest in fixing things but again you literally disregarded most if not half of what @Liv just posted.

We are in agreement when it comes about that we want further improvement with security related situations/issues, there is no debate.

Edit: From Pac - "Just a note that we're treating MFA is an immediate priority and it's currently being implemented. It will be up and running in the next couple of days."

Edited by the author 4 years ago
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