Belutima:

• Regarding submit run: It's a fair point. I would speculate that most people would deduce this by seeing that most of the runs on the site are by users, but a small percentage probably wouldn't.
• Regarding misc: It's a way to encourage people to track less appreciated categories. To be blunt, without a misc concept, the overall number of categories on the site would probably go down, as people don't like diluting the more well-defined categories. As you say, there may be better ways to display it to communicate its purpose. The DMC3 board you mention actually has subcategories marked as misc, which apparently display better.
• Regarding general site process: I would agree that we need site guides, explanations, and rules, and we haven't made the time to do that.

I think he's saying "encourage people to make accounts to submit a run" instead of "you don't need an account to submit a run". Lowering the barrier to entry is good so long as it doesn't create a flurry of bad requests, which I don't think this would.

MLSTRM: We're trying to push out the first round of game tags changes quite soon, which would include having games in multiple series for cases like this. It would be easier to wait a bit and add to both series than it would to dissolve the series and recreate it a short time later.

You can PM an admin. If you PM me on Twitch with the same Twitch account listed on your profile I can handle it manually.

1: To my understanding, super mods and mods have exactly the same privileges, except super mods can add/remove moderators. This has been the case for at least 6 months, but not always before that.

2: This is something we want. We upgraded the internal logging a bit recently. Passing it up on a per game basis is another task. I don't know when that will be done, but it would save us all some headaches for sure.

So UhTrance volunteered the information that he modified 2 posts on or around April Fools Day. The logs didn't suggest he modified posts in the last ~5+ days. (We can go back further, but it's just an additional waste of time.) The logs show that Hoobie messed with numerous posts after that (at least 3 with stupid gifs). I don't actually know who messed with the rules or deleted threads right now.

We'll look into making it so that super mods can't edit forum posts, because there's really no good reason to do that. We want moderator logs eventually, but we haven't had people available to pursue this. It should go without saying that doing this behind the scenes stuff is stupid and just a waste of everyone's time.

EDIT: We added better internal logging of changes to rules/categories.

EDIT: Thought we figured it out, but it's still not clear. Gotta go back in the logs again.

Removed 3 mods until this is sorted out. I need another admin to look into it. I'll restore everyone that wasn't involved afterwards, wrote it down.

Dchaps/Sephjul haven't been online recently enough to have even possibly done this as far as I understand.

I wasn't actually aware it was possible for a mod to do this, we need to fix that functionality.

Please leave the posts as is until we can sort this out, or it might just create additional confusion for us.

Tobibound: Please contact the current moderator to discuss.

jh05013: Added due to inactivity

Jcstrickland89: Looks like it got sorted out. Users aren't required to read the forums every 3 days, as this is a hobby for most of us.

Since I was asked:

Is there enough consensus to add a couple super mods? (and are any of the regular mods inactive/uninvolved enough to suggest removal?)

• Kirk

Eh, I guess it's more personal beef. I didn't really read that closely. Still seems a bit out of place in a relatively neutral thread, but I'll remove the comment.

andypanther: We want to make timer code more modular in implementation and displayability in the future. There's discussion on this in other threads.

Znernicus: I responded in the other thread.

I'm locking this thread because it's very old, and the work pertaining to the first phase was completed, and most of the future discussion on the topic focuses on newer issues. Feel free to use the feedback thread.

Adding this functionality would probably impact load times substantially unless a good way was found to do it. Every run would have to be checked against runs for all players. A workaround solution seems hackish and possibly detrimental if made available to other boards.

(I locked the older thread, the new information in it is redundant and the old information is very outdated.)

tutas23: What Beardy said. It's much easier for him to add you than it is for me to verify the conversation happened. If he still doesn't get it and wants to post here, that's fine too.

Toad22484: Neither of you has runs in queue as of now. Please contact the moderators prior to using this thread when possible.

He is pretty much just requesting something like the SMRPG/MegaMan players do with converting times: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KQW1YIyy9vVxZcrzxN4PAItUyZK8fEPbbeCvWHyU5xU

The timer code eventually needs rewritten to support an arbitrary number of arbitrarily named timers, and ideally a time could be a function of the variables and some offsets. This requires quite a bit of an overhaul of the code, but it is something we'd like to support eventually.

This is sort of what the subcategories variable was produced for, to give visual distinction between two things that aren't directly comparable. It may or may not be able to address this use case though.

I'd recommend using the time without loads field for now. Ideally these should be arbitrarily named in the future, but functionally it does exactly what you need it to.

This has been brought up periodically over the last couple years. I would personally prefer to go the route of getting more qualified people actively involved in private capacity.

Standalone programs, especially those not including account information are much more practical to maintain as open source. The security ramifications relating to sites hosting userdata, accounts, forums, etc are inherently more substantial. The example of PBTracker seems more comparable, but I also suspect it is more lightweight in its implementation. I'm sure you know these things, but I'm emphasizing the comparison.

I do not know of any major community with our user density, accounts, forums, and (working towards) private messages, that chooses to be open source.

Comparable Sites: SpeedDemosArchive SpeedRunsLive TASVideos Smashboards TeamLiquid.net Shoryuken

Forekast: Added to Moonlight because the board was empty and mods were inactive. I also added you to the other game you have a pending action in because the mod was inactive.

This thread is for new consoles not in the general console list on the site. Requests for adding existing consoles to specific games should go through the moderators for the game

xEleaa: User hasn't been online and the board has no runs, added.

Do you want me to move runs or do a username change? I can just delete if you want to confirm. You can PM me on Twitch if you want.