I would very much like an explanation or an change

There was not enough mods to handle the ILs, but now we have more mods so maybe we can take it back.

I would absolutely love it if this game gets level runs. Cause I preffer doing and watching level runs over full game runs.

But are we going to create Level leaderbords for full words or for separate stages or for both

In the past, there was ILs

"The ILs and the user-defined categories have become a management nightmare. It wasn't an issue when the community was smaller. However, the community has grown much larger (much more than I imagined it ever would) and it's still growing at a rapid pace. Keeping all of those around isn't feasible long term in my opinion." -Roopert83, 2017

ILs are easy to verify because you only need to check for IGT at the end of the level.

For Smb1 for ILs we would more realistically have to FRAME COUNT every IL

Using IGT isn’t very accurate and was a bad idea from the start for a game that uses frame/millisecond precision. I highly doubt we’d bring that back past the existing 1-1 fire and 8-4 levels.

Maybe we could have a leaderboard for every level, or maybe we could have a leaderboard for every world, I'm ok with either

Someone is welcome to run an IL leaderboard somewhere else if they wish. Unless the feelings of the rest of the mods have changed, I find it extremely unlikely we would bring individual levels back or implement individual worlds. Many of the levels are not that difficult to get a perfect time in. I guess I don't see what the benefit having 300 people tied for 1st place on a 4-1 IL is going to be besides having your name on the leaderboard and say you're tied with first place with something.

Maybe I'm being blunt, but I don't see the value in reopening the IL floodgates. Believe me, if we did that it would just be a huge flood of IL submissions. Many other communities did away with ILs and we eventually did as well.

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