CanadaThe state of series mods on the site is, imo, a disorganized mess that needs to be addressed. Some series have them, some don't, and there doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason why.
I understand the necessity of series mods for series like Roblox games or minecraft custom content that handle an unreasonably large amount of game requests that site staff can't reasonably be expected to filter through. And features like setting a default theme for games in series is a nice touch but could be handled in a way that doesn't require dedicated series mods (and is thus available to series that don't have mods currently).
But the fact that there are a large amount of small series that see rare to no game requests but still have requests go through series mods is a massive pain that shouldn't exist. I have had and heard of multiple bad experiences with trying to get games added to these series - the mods are often largely inactive and can take weeks to respond and are often apathetic or disinterested in adding new games because their series is small and/or unpopular and they simply don't want to be bothered. I have also been told by series mods that they believed they shouldn't add games and to go to src instead - who promptly told me to go to series mods.
All of this seems like a completely unnecessary annoyance in getting smaller / more obscure games added that happen to be parts of series that have mods. Instead of requests going through one source that (hopefully) responds to requests promptly and with a degree of consistency, they're scattered to a ton of series mods who may or may not be active enough to see and respond to the request and may or may not still be actively interested in maintaining and adding missing games to their series.
Again, I understand the necessity of series mods for large series with a ton of game requests. But I don't see why small, inactive series should have them, especially when they are generally toothless in most other regards.
Imo, remove series mods from all but those series that see a regular, large amount of requests (or at least handle game requests through src rather than through those mods), and open up the series page / default theme in a different way that doesn't require series mods or an src support request, because right now the system is a mess that needs to be addressed.
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The green and blue used on the speedrun.com page don't contrast very well and make the page harder to read than it should be. Just darkening the blue and/or lightening the green a little bit would help a ton, don't need to completely redesign the color scheme. Thx
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