So to celebrate having hit a milestone of 1,000,000 pageviews in January alone, I'd like to publish some statistics.
Traffic
• Pageviews:
• By country:
• Busiest time of day: 21:00 UTC • Quietest time of day: 09:00 UTC
Timeline • 2013-12-08: Conceived the idea for the site, from a conversation with RWhiteGoose • 2013-12-09: Development began • 2014-03-25: Grand opening; GTA was the first to join, with Lighnat0r becoming admin • 2014-08-14: Bought the speedrun.com domain (for $3,500 ._.') • 2014-08-15: Renamed the site from SpeedRunRecords to speedrun.com • 2014-09-16: Talks began with SpeedRunsLive • 2014-11-13: SpeedRunsLive pledged their support, with Kirkq becoming admin • 2015-01-22: Established collaborative coding, with SgtKabukiman undertaking security
Records • Games: 1,987 • Series: 282 • Runs: 23,551
Users • Total: 4,084 • Moderators (of at least one game): 1,056 (of whom 800 are Super moderators) • Full moderators: 5 • Administrators: 4 • Users online each day: ~900 • New users per day
Thanks for being a part of it (y)
Oh, I've never seen a YouTube URL like that before - is it new? I'll add support for it later today.
Just send them to me (pac413 ɑt gmail.com) for the moment, until we get a dedicated address set up.
It's possible to reassign an existing game to a newly-created series. Moderators of that game can do so in Edit game.
Yeah actually, those suggestions make a lot of sense.
[quote=los] I hate how I cant upload my splits. I cant upload a .zip or .rar, the site just won't accept it.[/quote]Yeah, I've heard that before. What program are you using to archive them?
So I'm going back home to Ireland in two months (not for good, though), and we're gonna have a wee meetup in Dublin in March. It'll be a general hanging out sort of thing. Everyone's welcome.
The usual suspects are already in, but people from other countries like UK, Netherlands and Germany have expressed interest in coming too, so I'd like to get a better idea of who's in, what dates most people would be available.
I was thinking around Fri 6th - Sun 8th; how does that suit most people? Or do you have any other preference?
I'll be updating the timing system soon-ish (about #3 on my priority list), and I want to check that everything is covered.
This is mainly directed at moderators (FYI: 763 users moderate at least one game). In order to make sure that the site supports the timing method each game needs, there'll be a fair amount of customisation options. A lot more dynamic than it is now, basically.
So, there are three timing fields:
• Real time • In-game time • Time without loads
Here's what's planned:
• Any or all of the above fields will be usable • Any of the above fields can be selected as the default view • Leaderboards will be sortable by any of the above fields • Different fields will be usable for full-game leaderboards and individual level leaderboards • Different fields will be usable for different categories • Each timing field can select times broken down into minutes, seconds, decaseconds, centiseconds, or milliseconds • 4-player support
If I've forgotten anything, or you have any further requests for this, here's the place to tell me.
Alright, back from my vacation. Time to get to work.
I've got a LOT of messages built up, so please be patient and I'll try to get around to everything.
I made a special exception for the DK64 community, because they had them on their old leaderboard and I didn't want them to feel like they'd be losing anything by moving here.
They're hardcoded.
If you take a quick look at Edit profile, you'll notice you can now select just Australia, Canada, UK and USA without having to pick a region.
The regions themselves now appear in a separate menu when you pick one of the above. This allowed me to add regions for a lot more countries without cluttering up the main menu, so I've added all the regions for the Netherlands, Japan (of course), and as requested one for Sweden.
I'm not going to do the whole world because that would be insane, but if you want me to add the regions for your country, just request it here and I'll see if I have time. They must have flags.
Right here is fine.
But if it's about a security vulnerability, you should probably tell me privately (IRC, Twitch, e-mail).
[quote=mobiusman]I do think it would be neat to have the option to display the runners' flags on the leaderboards.[/quote]I know this is a tiny detail, but if it's just the flags on not the name of the area, then that raises the question of whether US states should display their respective flags (which barely anybody recognises) or the US flag itself.
Games: • Games by series are now ordered by year of release • An option was added to games to hide Emulator runs by default • An option was added to leaderboards to hide runs without a video • An option was added to games to disable moderation from the series above it • An option was added to profiles to hide obsolete runs (and improved by Lighnat0r to only show the option if there are obsolete runs). • The link to ROM hacks is now hidden to non-mods if there are no ROM hacks • Fixed a name duplication glitch wherein a mod would show up twice if s/he's a mod of a game and the series above it. • When a user signs up, all existing runs in their name are tied to them automatically • Better messages now appear on profiles and leaderboards if there are no runs submitted • Game covers can now be any ratio you want; not just DVD size - example
Layout: • Drop shadows have been added to all boxes and tables (thanks for the suggestion, CryZe) • Leaderboards now have alternating row colours (thanks for the suggestion, CryZe) • I've done a HTML cleanup, but there may have been a few tables still without a background that I missed - if you see any, please inform me • Edit theme now says Add theme if it doesn't exist • The number of options available in Edit theme has been reduced. The others are now generated automatically based on Box • The navigation bar now has its own colour, independent of the Box colour • Edit theme now has a colour picker so you can see what colour you're choosing • The logos on a few themes have been improved • The ESA 2015 HYPE theme has been added. On this (and other lighter themes), username colours are inverted. • A new default theme has been created, and the old one is now available under Mint (as always, go to Settings to change theme)
Other: • THE PROBLEM WITH MIDDLE CLICK OPENING THINGS TWICE HAS BEEN FIXED
What's next? Alternative languages. Prepare yourselves, the Japanese are coming.
[quote=tozino]Is there way to capitalize the nick or something like this?[/quote]You want me to change your name to Tozino?
Fixed. You'll now get an error if you try to give a game an abbreviation that's already in use. They are case sensitive though, so Octodad is not the same as octodad.
Also, super mods can already delete a game - see Edit game.