If there are many categories, it becomes annoying to use and there is no good overview. See for example this leaderboard: https://www.speedrun.com/smbce And see here how it used to look: https://web.archive.org/web/20210210032815/https://www.speedrun.com/smbce

Maybe do it like this?

why they chose to hide tabs by default in the first place is baffling to me. good for the "pending actions" page. bad for leaderboards handled by communities.

Reminder that the dropdown "feature" is also in place for subcategories: What's especially weird about the subcategory dropdown implementation is that once you get past 4 subcategories or so, then only one is shown by default. Assuming a dropdown is needed, there should be 4 subcategories shown by default, and rest in dropdown, at least??

The new variable and category format overall comes off as incredibly bureaucratic and condescending from Elo, like they are saying "we know better than you how to do category and variable layouts". It's also plain as day that Elo did zero testing with game with a lot of categories, or else they surely would have realized it's an unreasonable amount of scrolling.

Did Elo forget that leaderboards here are supposed to be community-driven? Things like leaderboard format should be handled by each game's community. Game moderators could already hide categories/ subcategories before, via the "misc." option. If they didn't hide those categories, they had a reason for it, which Elo wholly disregarded.

It's especially eye-opening that the advice in the community news post of the initial update was that game moderators can just "adjust the placement of the default category if they don't like what gets shown".

This just comes off as so tone-deaf, the response to "why can I not see all the subcategories I'd like visible" is not "If you don't like which ONE subcategory is shown, then you can change the order".

Custom CSS for the category issue (doesn't work for subcategory dropdown) in the meantime: https://twitter.com/furious_/status/1448718742498779136?s=20

Obviously still waiting for an official fix, since you can't expect the average leaderboard viewer to install custom CSS scripts.

I know web development is hard, so don't take any of the criticism personally, but I just don't see why anyone thought it's a good idea to take leaderboard format out of community hands to begin with. Please fully revert the subcategory/ category changes ASAP, respect the choices of individual game moderators and game communities.