You submit a run by going to the page for the game (here's Earthbound) and clicking "Submit Run" at the top right.
Streaming isn't required generally, though some communities may require it if you get really good times in highly competitive games without ever streaming.
Video quality doesn't matter as long as it's not too hard to tell what's happening. Both Twitch and Youtube videos are accepted, though I'm not sure if other formats are.
I'm getting this message whenever I try to add a game to a series:
It still lets me add the game though.
One thing I requested in another thread:
Providing an option for "gametime unavailable" for runs that don't have a reference for the in-game time.
Just submit a new run the same way you did the first time. Only the faster one will be visible on the leaderboard (after your new submission is verified), but slower runs will still be visible in your profile.
Would be nice to have a "game time not available" option so that runs with only realtime timing known could be indicated as such.
My thoughts:
Functionality: 2. Maybe username colors should all be the same on leaderboards so they don't conflict with the themes 3. It can be useful to match the colors to the rest of the themes 4. Seems strange to be able to customize the logo
Moderation options:
- People seem to like having game themes, so probably not
- Seems annoying to both game mods and global mods for little benefit
- Seems best to me, allow freedom while removing anything too unpleasant
If usability/design is a concern, game themes could be default invisible unless a user has an account/enables themes.
High intensity features:
- Seems really distracting, not sure if there's a use for it that doesn't take away from the leaderboards
- Seems fine as long as it's not completely absurd
- Scrolling of backgrounds seems distracting and resource intensive for no real gain. Scrolling in front of backgrounds (like the Animal Crossing theme) has some benefits but is only a bit less resource intensive, so I'm not sure it's worth the cost in usability.
When I have a game page with scrolling open, it gradually increases in memory usage from 50k to 550k or so and uses 15-20% cpu (other sites usually use about 50-100k and less than 2% cpu). This seems a bit excessive to me, though it might be a programming issue.
I think transparent tables look nice over most backgrounds and are easily readable as long as the opacity of the table isn't too low.
Sure, but I think that it would still be nice to have if it's not difficult to set up.
Another suggestion: quote button on forum posts
It might be a good idea for run pages to say who submitted the run (if not the player).
Really minor thing, but the main forums page always indicates that there are new posts in every forum even when that is not the case.
Even less important, the background is visible through some (short?) forum posts, could be intentional though.
Looks like this:
