What are the basic differences beetween the two forums? Which one is better? Which one is more updated? which one's got more users? Which one is more reliable for checking World records?
SDA has a lot more established, experienced people, Speedrun.com has a lot more newer people who are just discovering speedrunning.
As far as main differences go, SDA does not host leaderboards, nor are its featured runs necessarily the best existing runs for each game. I find them weirdly outdated actually. As a database of runs and up-to-date leaderboards, Speedrun.com is currently the best thing available, whereas SDA is more of a community forum and hosts a lot of information on GDQs and various marathons.
All these informations are exactly what I wanted to hear. That Speedrun.com - even if it's not older - is the best thing around then ^^
SDA is pretty complicated (at least for me). Don't really like it. Speedrun.com is my home
Lel, speed "demons" archives. I think that's a much cooler name.
I've looked at the SDA side from time to time. Never saw any reason to get involved. I like this site much better.
[quote] SDA is flawed in that its run submission process is simply too long. A friend of mine submitted a Resident Evil run on there a while ago. Now he's already beaten that time, and the run he submitted is still in the verification process months later.
SDA is a place where there's a lot of vets and long-time speedrunners, but the actual archives themselves are massively outdated and fairly redundant nowadays because of that. [/quote].
Dude I submitted a run once on SDA and it took about ONE BLOODY YEAR to verify