you can request games to the site trough the support hub. https://www.speedrun.com/knowledgebase/supporthub be sure to read the rules
you should post these in the TASsing discord aswell for feedback:D
highly recommend staying away from most usb retro controllers and to get adapters for original controllers instead.
the problem is more than well known about. i dont think the bump was necessary
seasonal leaderboard make really no sense for absolutely any game other than the most active ones. sm64 might have even a hundred unique runners a month but lets take ape escape 1 and youll get 0 or 1 on average and ape escape isnt even a small game with a couple of runners.
forums may be good in the example you provided about leaving your ideas to people interested but discord is way better in basically every other way. talking to people on forums is slow and weird since forums dont update on realtime. and id say having one thread per every game would be extremely messy and good luck talking about even two different categories at the same time.
and new people looking at speedrunning trough the wrong "lens" is basically their own fault. if you get intimidated by a big leaderboard or super fast wr then whyd you start running a game just because its popular, wouldnt blame src on that though src could help on that.
personally i hate having to go find my phone just to log in to something on my pc
its not really a queue. the mods can verify the runs in any order. but to anser the 2nd half. since you have been waiting for 2 months you should contact the mods and if you cant get ahold of them you can request to become the moderator of the game trough the support hub.
but looking at your profile im guessing its a minecraft run and minecraft has a lot of runs they need to verify so just wait. theyll verify it when they can.