Victoria, AustraliaI don't think 2a or 2b should be considered. I think it's far too much work to be competitive in the game, and we already have a history of separating those kind of categories from the regular any%.
As for the "anything goes" category, my main concern is that this is meant to be a leaderboard. The moment we add that, the leaderboard becomes PBTracker where anyone can run any category they come up with. I don't think that's the point of a moderated leaderboard and runners can just keep track of any obscure categories themselves separately anyway.
Like rarelike said in Discord, I think allowing macros isn't really a can of worms that we should open.
That leaves 1a, which I'm not entirely against because any% lag glitch is just any% with a few seconds of rules being broken to shave off a (relatively) small amount of time off the run.
Honestly, I like a combination of options 1 and 3/4. I don't think the high score section needs to be on a completely new website, but a URL that links to the high score section of the site would be nice.
I don't mind being in the situation where speedgames need to be established (with a Google Docs leaderboard or something similar) before being on the website. Obviously, this may make creating a scene for the game difficult (especially with SDA not being particularly active these days), maybe there can be a forum category for this? Runners can make a thread in an attempt to drum up interest for their game, people interested in trying something new can browse and add to the community if they want to.
The best thing you can do at this point is try to prove its legitimacy as a speed game. Instead of dragging browser games through the mud, maybe link to an already-existing leaderboard?
You did a great job from what I saw, Gyoo. Enjoy your other projects.
Obviously, 100% runs will require rank S on all levels, and I'm guessing all geocaches on levels where there aren't ranks. But what about optional objectives, such as finding the room keycard in Off The Grid? Is that required, or can it be ignored? I was personally going to skip it, since you can skip objectives and still get rank S (like the guestbook in Wayfarer).
Something worth remembering is that verification date should not be the be all and end all, as any edits made by the mods (in cases of the first mod making a mistake, etc.) will change the verification date.
Four threads below this one is Pac's thread explaining it: https://www.speedrun.com/The_Site/thread/j92z1
Odyssey will need a clean up in the future, but it's so active that I'm not sure the mods will have time for it before the game is at least not easily the most active game on the site (SMO has 582 active players, Getting Over It is 2nd with 145).
It doesn't really matter, though. Anyone can look at "Any%" or "Beat the game" or even "any%" and think "that's the category where they beat the game as fast as possible". There's no ambiguity, it's just a matter of personal choice.
I don't think anything more needs to be done to punish cheaters, IceShadow. Cheating is pretty much the ultimate sin in the eyes of the speedrunning community. A former friend of mine got caught cheating and he needed to shut down all his social media accounts due to death threats and abuse.
Generally, splits.io problems are due to splits.io and nothing to do with SRcom. It has been having a few server issues.
I used to go by KlashikEggzampal, inspired by the Hilltop Hoods and Pharoahe Monch song, and then I shortened it when streamers were struggling to read my name in chat.
A method that used to work was just adding the category back with exactly the same name. Otherwise, a member of site staff can rollback the changes. They had some trouble with it recently, though.
Nothing, actually. I'm not sure why you'd do it, though. That said, I'm not going to dictate what your rules should be on videos that are no longer available. You can go into a verified run and reject it in the same way it was verified in the first place.
