Everybody, please take some time to read the announcement post from our CTO, Camcorder!
https://www.speedrun.com/news/94vwp28y-welcome-to-the-new-speedrun
Feel free to leave feedback on the new site rewrite in this thread or a new ticket over at https://www.speedrun.com/support/tickets/new!
Wish we could see recent runs still on the games leaderboard, I liked it a lot. I could be missing it, but I don't see it anywhere
The current translations are machine-generated, and their quality can best be described as "usable".
Wasn't there like, a whole ass system of doing crowdsourced translations that you guys just...did not use?
Millisecond precision display seems broken. Also getting quite a few server errors when going into settings and saving.
Really need https://www.speedrun.com/runsawaitingverification to come back
The site crashes all the time, so can't really say anything about features yet.
I appreciate all the work your team has done, it must've taken a ton of time! And that's why it pains me to say this:
Personally I prefer the previous version of the website BY A MILE. Examples why:
- "Games you moderate" is now private and not public and doesn't show a concise list with icons or show which SERIES we are moderator for
- The game's cover, unless it's a very specific size, is now cropped and broken. E.g. none of the Arcade game cover fit.
- Our personal badges are gone, replaced by our profile pictures (avatar)
- Transparency of our badges and avatars is gone.
- Can't see when a moderator has last been online any longer
In general, this new site version is extremely cluttered, missing important features we had before and rough to navigate.
1 positive though, the 1 thing I do personally appreciate and would keep is the new "History" feature.
PLEASE revert everything else back to the way it was before. I think that's what most people want.
Remember the saying: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it".
ngl bro i was NOT expecting this AT ALL and well, i'm gonna be brutally honest here. i'm not a fan of this AT ALL. the profiles page looks bad, forum looks like shit and almost everything just looks bad.
if you're gonna make the change, PLEASE atleast ask the community if we want this or not but knowing that i'm talking to elo here, it's like i'm talking to a brick wall. there is really no point here.
Personally I'm not a fan of how run pages are laid out, it looks super messy to me and just cluttered.
Plus trying to go to my own profile page took over 30 seconds to load, whereas before it took less than 5 seconds.
A couple issues on the verifier/mod side.
I was hoping with the change to variables that you could select which categories the variables applied to instead of only having the option to apply them to all categories or to a singular category. I think having a checkbox to select which categories a variable applies to would be extremely helpful.
Verifiers no longer have the ability to edit runs, which is a major issue as like 80% of runs have something incorrectly input. So we'll have to make all verifiers mods atm. It was a helpful distinction but now a verifier is pretty much useless. 
I used to have a table formatted that just doesn't show up at all now in the forums. The post was literally:
Rounds in btd1:
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Round 1: 12 red bloons
Round 2: 25 red bloons
Round 3: 12 red -> 2 blue -> 12 red -> 3 blue bloons
Round 4: 5 red -> 12 blue -> 5 red -> 12 blue bloons
Round 5: 15 red -> 10 blue -> 15 red -> 15 blue bloons
Round 6: 10 green -> 5 green bloons
Round 7: 75 blue bloons
Round 8: 20 red -> 30 blue -> 30 red -> 20 blue -> 20 red -> 20 blue bloons
Round 9: 25 blue -> 15 green -> 25 blue bloons
Round 10: 35 green bloons
Round 11: 15 yellow bloons
Round 12: 25 blue -> 25 green -> 3 yellow bloons
Round 13: 40 blue -> 40 red -> 28 green -> 35 blue bloons
Round 14: 28 yellow bloons
Round 15: 30 green -> 30 blue -> 30 green bloons
Round 16: 20 blue -> 30 green -> 30 blue -> 20 green -> 20 blue -> 25 green bloons
Round 17: 70 blue -> 45 green -> 70 blue bloons
Round 18: 30 blue -> 27 yellow -> 25 green bloons
Round 19: 90 green bloons
Round 20: 16 yellow -> 12 green -> 15 yellow -> 12 green -> 17 yellow bloons
Round 21: 15 yellow -> 10 blue -> 20 yellow -> 15 green -> 70 green bloons
Round 22: 45 yellow bloons
Round 23: 30 yellow -> 35 green -> 34 yellow bloons
Round 24: 30 green -> 42 yellow -> 20 green -> 30 blue bloons
Round 25: 25 yellow -> 30 green -> 28 yellow -> 40 green bloons
Round 26: 85 yellow bloons
Round 27: 20 black bloons
Round 28: 55 yellow -> 45 green bloons
Round 29: 100 yellow -> 25 yellow -> 19 black bloons
Round 30: 250 green bloons
Round 31: 27 black -> 55 green -> 10 blue bloons
Round 32: 20 yellow -> 25 green -> 23 black bloons
Round 33: 150 yellow bloons
Round 34: 25 black -> 35 green -> 35 yellow bloons
Round 35: 25 yellow -> 85 green -> 85 yellow bloons
Round 36: 17 black -> 115 yellow -> 18 black bloons
Round 37: 59 black bloons
Round 38: 220 yellow bloons
Round 39: 50 red -> 50 blue -> 50 green -> 50 yellow -> 40 black bloons
Round 40: 80 black bloons
Round 41: 20 white -> 20 black -> 20 white bloons
Round 42: 50 yellow -> 30 black -> 30 white bloons
Round 43: 150 yellow -> 60 black -> 40 white bloons
Round 44: 120 black bloons
Round 45: 120 white bloons
Round 46: 60 white -> 60 black -> 59 yellow bloons
Round 47: 70 black -> 79 yellow -> 40 white bloons
Round 48: 70 yellow -> 80 white -> 80 black bloons
Round 49: 70 white -> 99 yellow -> 80 black bloons
Round 50: 10 white -> 10 black -> 10 white -> 10 black -> 10 white -> 10 black -> 10 white -> 10 black -> 10 white -> 10 black -> 10 white -> 10 black -> 10 white -> 10 black -> 10 white -> 10 black -> 10 white -> 10 black -> 10 white -> 9 black bloons
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When editing rules for "values" and presumably other area, its physically impossible to scroll the screen down to edit rules below a fixed point without using ctlr minus. As you can see I have no scroll bar to view anything below this point. And no the scroll from HTML mode does not fix this.
Echoing this point from above:
"The game's cover, unless it's a very specific size, is now cropped and broken. E.g. none of the Arcade game cover fit."
While I get the visual consistency angle, it needs to be recognised that not every game has a "sensible" box art that fits into the provided proportions, but also without giving people the chance to say if the art should crop/resize/fit max dimension but retain aspect ration has caused a bit of a mess in some places.
Specifically for the Final Fantasy Series, where for multi-release applicability and ease of reference we've generally tried to keep to game logos over box art, now looks like a mess.
I do appreciate the counter arguments/points to this will probably be either "edit the logos to fit the required aspect ratio even though they get much smaller" or "you should be using box art so just pick one and deal with it" but neither of these are particularly great options, and I would appreciate it if some alternative solution could at least be considered/discussed slightly.
So thoughts on the new site look: Whilst it loads better in some places, most of what I know has been thrown out the window and there's a lot of things either not working or have gone missing. Like in a game series as moderator, how do you add a new game to the series yourself? There's no option for that anymore or am I just being dumb, I'm gonna echo most of what people have already said: New site update is terrible, please either test it properly with others before rolling it out or just don't try and fix something that isn't broken to begin with.
oh and BTW some stuff is broken already like some of text markdown not working, can't properly delete your own threads anymore (example here --> Introductions forum - this thread is supposed to be deleted. - Speedrun), be able to pin your own threads, bugged notifications and more i have yet to find, did anyone genuinely even test this before they rollout the update? what a joke of an update dude, i really fucking miss pac already.
the update doesn't really deserve writing about all the obvious flaws people have already posted about again, but this hasn't been mentioned yet so I will post a screenshot complaining about it
Arbitrary variable mapping (which includes subcategories) is coming in a future update. Here's what our CTO had to say about that
This is from the announcement post, please make sure you read it!
Verifiers not being able to edit runs was a bug, its now being fixed