It's worth noting that comments count as posts, so at minimum new threads don't have to be created all the time.

I've just stopped reading anything on the Talk forum, it's not worth my time.

@Speed_geometry For clarification, being 13 is a legal requirement. Speedrun.com does not have the power to change internet safety laws.

mumble mumble we've already established the zero-width space is more efficient mumble mumble

It looks like SRC finally got favicons working (woo!), which is why going to games which have set them up shows different images. It seems the option to change one's own theme favicon was removed years ago, but those images were still stored, hence the "bug". Should be simple enough to add the option back.

If no one can help you further with that, you could always try using a window capture of a LiveSplitOne in browser and adding a crop filter to your tastes.

I can't remember that ever having been promised, but your word is as good as mine. Nothing's in the site update news posts, but there may be info on the forums.

I'm still wondering what kind of weirdo timezone O.D.W is living in where he's 50 minutes off the hour

While the game is certainly higher quality than a lot of Scratch games, it is too short to be accepted under the normal rules. The (kinda official?) guidelines are that a casual playthrough should be longer than five minutes at the minimum; this game has three levels (it's in the title) which each take less than a minute.

I have to say, you're pretty committed to getting a bunch of games on the site; your enthusiasm is appreciated. Just don't try and mod farm...

How do you standardize a creative activity in leaderboard videos?

You'd best be looking for "one minute song" videos on YouTube or something. It might be entertaining, but it's not a speedrun.

@MadGamer1984 This is why blind runs are casual and only really performed for entertainment and training purposes; there's no true consistency between runs.

It's been brought up multiple times before on the site, consensus remains that it just isn't worth it for the site developers to implement this when one can easily follow a runner's accounts on other sites. For your "community", you may want to consider creating a Discord server where you can discuss (and if this is for a specific game, form a single place to communicate).

Have you tried refreshing your browser cache (Ctrl+F5)? Your browser downloads some files so it doesn't have to download the same files every time; this can mean it doesn't update when the file changes.

The only way it would be accepted to the site is if you managed to build a community of many people speedrunning the game. That's why I wished you luck—that's a very tough task.

A game not being accepted to the site doesn't mean you can't post your own speedruns on YouTube, though.

If the site moderators come off as rude, that's probably because they've seen many submissions like this. But I don't think they're treating you unfairly:

@Oreo321 already explained how "Hay Day" is an "endless game with [an] arbitrary [goal]." Dumb Ways to Die is a different style of game, but one that is still an endless game with an arbitrary goal—play the same minigames either for a high score or to unlock characters on the title screen. In any case, there's not too much room to optimize the minigames, and no way to optimize the structure of the game, such as which minigames appear.

Acceptable games for this site are going to be games with more formal structures, as detailed here. This isn't just arbitrary, but because speedruns of these games are themselves less arbitrary and more popular as a result. Exceptions are made for games which have existing, healthy speedrun communities; if you're committed enough to build those with these games, I wish you luck.

If you want fun speedruns, you really should take another look at some of the games you mention here. I can personally confirm that Celeste is fun to speedrun.

@jackzfiml I'd say it's premature to call that a splice since the cursor position, LiveSplit timer, and Windows clock show no sign of manipulation. Additionally, the Play button (and not the Menu button) is pressed down as if it were being held down.

Also, I was able to replicate this behavior. The game consistently switches to the next level if the Play button is held and released, regardless of where the cursor is when it is released.

In short, this run is valid. Please be more thorough in your investigations next time. If you do suspect a splice, you can discuss what happened with the runner, who might be able to explain. If the runner did cheat, you could ban them from the leaderboard and/or the site, though this is really up to the moderators of your community.

@RaggedDan Be careful with your terminology, blind speedruns (speedrunning a game without knowledge of the game and its route) are not blindfolded speedruns (as if one were blind). Either way, both types are encouraged.

Define "more general" bounties.

It's just advertised the way anything else is.

It depends if the ROM hack you're using is listed has its own leaderboard on the site. Search for it with the ROM hack's specific name.

I'm doing my best to avoid news since I'm waiting to watch it with friends, but it's hard to wait! The original musical is worth a watch, though I'm not yet sure how similar the movie is.

"Lights up in Washington Heights..."