it would make more sense to call epsiodes 1-8 any% as it is the whole game. i still dont know about any glitches in this game. also i was thinking of epsiodes 1-4 (any% main story) and 5-8 (any% side Story) thats all

I feel like the current naming for the categories is best because its most descriptive of what the categories are.

btw why is there no discord server and is it even possible to somehow get the main menu to load and be clickable while in game?

There isn't Discord probably, cause the game is not so big in the speedrun community, but on another side, If you look at the series Minecraft Custom Content there is a game/map and there isn't a single speedrun on it and has a Discord server. I am also a big speedrunner in the OneBlock Map and the game has its own Discord server. For me would be very useful to have a Discord server too, cause for new speedrunners like me, there would be a lot easier to make a good run or even a beat world record and watch a 1-hour speedrun to get the tactics. I am going to speedrun the whole game tomorrow, but most of the other people don't have that opportunity, I'm lucky, cause I can grind it, but the other people are still going to wonder what is the best choice, what should they do to go faster, how should they do it and thing like that. Who's going to speedrun Minecraft: Story Mode the whole game, while they know almost 0 tactics?

For your other question. It isn't possible or I am dumb. You can skip the credits, but not the load I think. I can be wrong, cause I am new here.