Hey everybody!
Earlier today we posted some tweets, and I've personally been discussing with some people over in Discord this afternoon.
As said in the title, we're launching a new and updated Speedrun site next week, the result of nearly a year's work to address major bugs, improve features, and make the website more accessible to everyone. I'm gonna be posting all the same details I've posted on Twitter inside this thread as well for those of you who don't have Twitter or aren't in our Discord :)
For now, gonna keep this thread locked just until I can get all the feature details posted at which point I'll unlock it so we can discuss - but of course feel free to discuss beforehand as well!
P.S. Thread is now unlocked! Site is being released soon :)
Introducing a new way to view WR Histories! While viewing any category/sub-category combination, simply press the “History” button to view, and press again to make it disappear! We’ve also polished the chart view, which can still be found under the stats tab on any leaderboard :)
Introducing the new Game Settings page for Game Moderators! This area has been rewritten with clarity in mind - especially focusing on category/variable management which now contains explanations every step of the way.
Here's an overview of the General tab
Also featured - Run Management! Search through runs by Moderator, Runner, or Verification Status!
We also know mods are excited for 1-to-many variable mapping. Rest assured, this is still coming and will be implemented. However, we need to transition away from the old PHP website first. Luckily, we're doing that next week, allowing us to start developing advanced mod tools!
@Meta I have 2 questions.
What notifications will we get if we follow users. I’m guessing you would get notifications for runs that are accepted. If so, then is there an option to turn notifications off?
Would there be an option to kick people from a group message?
A lot of these look really good! The one thing I'd really love is in the New Variable options, under Category Scope, the ability to pick multiple categories rather than just "all" or "single". Having to make a bunch of copies of the "same" variable just to be able to exclude one category from that variable is a bit obtuse.
[quote]We also know mods are excited for 1-to-many variable mapping.[/quote]
Hopefully that's what this means?
@Act_ for now the main function of following users is to get their runs to show on your home page - I'm sure we can expand on this in the future
As for kicking people from a group message that has not been implemented, but a great idea. Also adding people after the group has been created should be added as well, Ill make sure to bring it to the devs
@Californ1a yes, thats exactly what I was referring to! Sorry if that wasn't clear, I think the appropriate name the developers use is "arbitrary mapping"
So this just updated for me. One thing I noticed is Settings seems unusually slow, and various other parts of the site are too is that normal right now and is just due to the rollout?
Like the look of a lot of it, though I can't see a day mode anymore and can't seem to see a option under theme/appearance in settings. Was that removed?
One thing I will still ask for me is please give us additional fields for multi-part videos.
