This post is cross-posted on Discord.

TL;DR: migration of a lot of runs today, sorry for the notifications!

Hi everyone,

As discussed on Discord several times since last November, i am in the process of moving most of the runs from existing full-game categories to individual levels categories and hopefully also category extensions. This will avoid polluting the full-game leaderboard with runs that do not actually cover the full game, will make the statistics page more clear, and will enable more flexibility for adding new subcategories in the future.

Later today (January 19), around 1 PM UTC, i will proceed to the first part of this migration, that is to say introducing individual levels. More than 600 runs will be moved to brand new leaderboards divided into four levels. Unfortunately, in this case, SPEEDRUN.COM does not provide a way to directly move this runs just by editing them, even for game moderators, so the only way to move these runs is to delete them and resubmit them elsewhere. Obviously, this will not be done fully by hand, but partially automatically with the help of a dedicated bot.

More details are given below.

Migration plan The migration plan is as follow:

1. Manually creating empty individual levels leaderboards (already done)
2. Automatically taking and saving a snapshot of all the runs that are intended to be moved
3. Automatically submitting a copy of these runs to the new leaderboards on my behalf
4. Manually restoring the name of the player and verifying each replacement run
5. Automatically rejecting the original runs
6. Manually updating all the rules
7. Manually deleting the old empty leaderboards
8. Waiting at most 6 hours
9. Updating the Discord bot so it can supports individual levels

What does it change for you? After the migration, you will find the moved runs and also will be able to submit your new runs at the following addresses:

• Turtle Village: https://www.speedrun.com/sba/Turtle_Village
• Snow Valley: https://www.speedrun.com/sba/Snow_Valley
• Beemothep Desert: https://www.speedrun.com/sba/Beemothep_Desert
• Giant House: https://www.speedrun.com/sba/Giant_House Starting version 1.9.6, the links in the game itself will also be updated to point to the new leaderboards, as agreed with the developer of the game.

History conservation During the process, the comment part of your run will be edited to include the informations that would otherwise be lost. At the end of the comments, you will find something like that: "Moderator's note: this run was originally submitted by user [submitter] on [date] and verified by [examiner] on [date]".

Potential issues If you find any error (a run at the wrong place, a run with the wrong time etc.), please let me know and i will do my best to fix it. As said earlier, a snapshot of the runs will be done and will be used to restore any information that may be lost by mistake.

Notifications That said, you will likely get a lot of notifications all at once if you subscribed to the game (maybe not, as notifications are reported to be broken for a few days now). Sorry for the inconvenience.

Fingers crossed!

In a game i moderate, all the existing runs have until now been submitted as "full-game" runs, despite the fact most of them are actually "individual levels" runs.

I'm in the process of moving these runs to equivalent individual levels categories i recently created. But as far as i know, there's no way to move these runs just by editing them.

I considered deleting and resubmitting them manually or with the help of a dedicated bot. However i have concerns about losing some data, in particular the identity of the original examiner, the original verify date and the date the runs were originally submitted.

Is there a better way of doing that, if possible without losing any information?

Since September 19, 2020, the game is also available on iOS (iPhone and iPad).

It would be nice to add the iOS platform in the dropdown when submitting a run for those who would like to speedrun on this platform ;)

The 1.9 update introduced 10 daily missions.

Most of the missions do not show a in-game timer, but some of them have one:

• Rally in Beemothep Desert (i don't know why)
• Egg hunt in Snow Valley (a countdown)
• Egg hunt in Turtle Village (a countdown) So i thought a new miscellaneous category with three sub-categories (one for each mission) would be very cool!

I already recorded one run for each one. The timer disappears when the mission is completed, so i took the previous frame for the time. And for the egg hunt missions, i took the initial time (5min) minus the final time, since the timer decreases.

Could a mod add these categories?

Could a moderator add the following categories in the "Giant House" tab ? :

• All bears
• All bears except Toast
• Viper
• Thomas
• Joseph
• Toast
• Maya
• Junior
• Claptrap
• Felix The rules would be the same as for the other levels