@Bob-chicken [quote]otter getting close to 10k (he will achieve it before the year is over)[/quote] Otterstone is the "he" here.

Alright. Here is what I've got down so far:

#January
- EazySpeezy starts pulling in views
- Donation Perks turned on for all users, resulting in the "Original Donor" badge being created
#February
- "Dream cheated" scandal unfolds
- Knowledge Base is added
#March
- I don’t know what happened on this month
#April
- First ever 4:54 in SMB1
#May
- Among Us and Mr. Krabs Overdoses on Ketamine both added
- Other Scratch Games added
- Ads showing for everyone, regardless of being logged in or not
- Site staff becomes a paid position
- Jaypin88 is banned for stealing runs
- Trackmania cheating scandal unfolds
- Dream semi-admits to cheating
#June
- jackzfiml becomes first post farmer to strike the site forums
- Run farming starts becoming popular.
- Site load times slow down a ton
- Private Messages break
- 1000 character limit is added to forum posts in reaction to people posting entire books
#July
- posts.mcbe.wtf is created
- Youtube made it so any unlisted video uploaded before 01/01/2017 became private by default, resulting in a temporary "RUNS AT RISK" pop-up
#August
- LewisAndSpark leaves ELO, resulting in Meta becoming the community manager
- Load times are fixed, except for private messages
- posts.mcbe.wtf is down
#September
- Among Us Clicker is added, becoming the hottest meme-game on the site
- Moderation Hub is added
- Jaypin88 is controversially unbanned
- Severed Steel, a game that was paid for by the developer to be featured on the site is added
#October
- Site layout is controversially changed, resulting in things such as:
• Run comment spam
• A dropdown menu for categories with 4+ sub-categories
• Games users follow becoming public information
• Runs users verified in a game becoming public information
• Speedrunning communities like SHAR enforcing a period of time in which no runs were being verified because of the new update
• Letting users create custom bios for their profiles
• And other things
- Private Messages are fixed
- posts.mcbe.wtf is back up
- "I was thinking about why so many in the radical left participate in 'speedrunning'."
- Metroid Dread becomes the most active game on the site
#November
- The first ever 1:37 run in SM64 120 star is achieved
#December
- SM64 becomes the most active game on the site for the first time in almost a year

In June there was a big progress by the farmers, people managed to make a lb for most runs (on the 13th), which was the first one and it changed a lot. We found many people we hadnt seen before and it led to more being made

A lot of the stuff on this list doesn't seem major, such as: i-ready (no idea what this is), among us clicker revamp, angry birds fan games stuff.

I would have included: first site sponsored promo (severed steel)

1k active runners for Minecraft

Edit: I agree with @kkntucara , June 13th is when farming saw a big boom in popularity

[quote=VyPr] 1k active runners for Minecraft [/quote]

What month?

[quote=VyPr] I would have included: first site sponsored promo (severed steel) [/quote]

Erm… I did

[quote=Kknutucara] In June there was a big progress by the farmers, people managed to make a lb for most runs (on the 13th), which was the first one and it changed a lot. We found many people we hadnt seen before and it led to more being made [/quote]

Added to the list.

[quote=VyPr] A lot of the stuff on this list doesn't seem major, such as: i-ready (no idea what this is), among us clicker revamp, angry birds fan games stuff. [/quote]

Aight. I’ll go in and remove shit like that.

"- Site layout is controversially changed" could need a few more details, like the "Commentpocalypse" and the spam, harassment and mod strikes it caused.

June: 
- 1000 character limit has been added to forum posts in reaction to people posting entire books or something (not sure about the date)
- GDPR Data requests have been added (24th of June)

@shenef Added.

Also, does anyone know when the site statistics thingy was removed? It might’ve occurred late 2020. I don’t know for sure.

What about the pending messages load time fixed?

The statistics page was one of the first to go, I feel like it was late 2020. @act7 bug fixes probably aren’t worth a mention, unless it was a security bug.

***August***
Ocarina of Time becomes gets beaten on the Super Smash Bros. Brawl OOT Demo (which limits the player to 5 minutes) with a credits warp https://twitter.com/Savestate/status/1429242257727705094?s=20

Ganon gets defeated within the 5 minute limit
https://twitter.com/Savestate/status/1429945719352446976?s=20

***December***
SSBB Ocarina of Time Demo gets added to OOT Category Extensions https://www.speedrun.com/ootextras#SSBB_Demo

On the 8th of May, Dha got to 10K verified and on the 18th of June the pagination limit suddenly “appeared” and we were unabke to see the number of runs verified by @1 , @jannik and @dha

What about the bots deletion thread coming back?

June 18th: first ever sub 21 in Kirby: The Unofficial Game

[quote=Act7] What about the bots deletion thread coming back? [/quote]

I think it's best to not have this recap video be entirely focused on the forums. That'd be more of a sr.c forums recap video, and that is not what I'm to go for here.

Does anyone know when SM64 passed Minecraft Java as the most active game? I think it was recently.

That happened this month a few days ago. It is on the list.

Metroid Dread was the top game on the site for a while
Edit: I see it on the list now never mind

[center]**Update on this “rewind video” extravaganza**[/center]

After run week ends, the sr.c 2021 recap video will officially start being worked on!