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SupporterSo I was on my phone (iPhone 6), your fucking ads crashed the site and my phone. I had to restart it. This is just ridiculous at this point.
Elo CTO here. Sorry for the bad experience you had - we do our best to limit bad ads and are making progress in this area but they still sneak in every now and then. I can promise you that we're making constant improvements to ad delivery and are working hard to minimize these types of issues.
The last thing you want your speedrun staff to do is speedrun. If they did they wouldn't have time to implement ads
I hear your frustration, but want to clarify something: the folks who are working day and night to improve speedrun (myself being one of them at the moment - lots of refactoring today!) are separate from the team working to improve the ad experience - it's not one or the other, we're working on both every single day.
Thanks for your patience everyone, we have some exciting things coming soon.
Hi everyone! I’m Jason, a co-founder and current CTO at Elo. I have been a fan of speedrunning for a long time, usually watching runs of older RPG games, randomizers, and some newer titles as well - current favorites are FF4 Free Enterprise, BOTW 100%, and Factorio. We’re incredibly excited to be involved with Speedrun.com, and are thankful to Pac and the team for all of their hard work over the years.
Speedrun.com wouldn’t be what it is without the efforts of thousands of people investing untold hours of time into games and communities that they’re passionate about. We recognize the importance and responsibility of properly maintaining the site and are humbled and grateful to be given the opportunity.
Initially we’re focused on performance, reliability, and quality of life improvements - hopefully you’ve noticed the site feeling a bit faster and more reliable lately. We’re just getting started and plan to build out a roadmap of additional improvements over time.
PS - We’re currently hiring software engineers! If you’d enjoy working on gaming related projects (like Speedrun.com!) that handle lots of data and serve millions of players, check out our openings at https://apply.workable.com/elo/.
