I've largely stayed on the sidelines on this conversation as I've been trying to stay "present" and in the moment with real life activities this week but I did want to chime in. My hope remains that some method can come together that can allow
#4947: dwangoAC, Ilari & p4plus2's SGB Pokémon: Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Version "Pokemon Plays Twitch" in 08:11.42 to be published. I'm unconcerned with what names each tier is called, and frankly I'm unconcerned if there's even a concept of tiers at all in the future, favoring a very different approach to the site altogether that would be so drastically different as to be almost unrecognizable, but I'm also not unreasonable as I know such a redesign would both be difficult and fraught with disagreements. Still, here's my thoughts on the matter:
- I like having well curated runs that have gone through the full publication process and I definitely think that should still be a thing for the "best" content on the site. There's no reason to throw out what works, and our pipeline for high quality publications remains completely usable and viable. Let's obviously not throw that out.
- I like having a system where anyone can upload anything in any category for any game similar to speedrun.com. I'd obviously prefer a few changes compared to how speedrun.com handles things and I'm not interested in a clone of the site but the general principle of anyone being able to upload something appeals to me greatly, as does the freedom to have more categories than we do now for our heavily curated runs.
- I'm in favor of more freedom in the types of content we host. There's an entire category of differently-abled speedrunners who are using tools to assist their speedruns who can't post their results on any of the mainstream speedrunning sites. We don't let them on here either because it isn't perfect and therefore falls short of the glorious standard of the site. I'd like to inclusively welcome them in with tags that allow their content to be categorized appropriately. We've lost some of the essence of what made us unique back in the early days of Tool-assisted superplay movies and I want to see us welcome that somehow.
I'm in favor of allowing more experimental content types. There's someone currently working on a very different way of "tool-assisted" gameplay that relies on virtual intelligence, like MarI/O on steroids but with a lot more human crafting around it. There's no place for that kind of content here right now and there really ought to be.
- I'm in favor of allowing content from live events being shown, but I'm obviously biased here. I find it a travesty that so much content remains unpublished in any form on the site.
- I'm in favor of more game types to be represented, including board games, ABC runs, interesting limitations and the like.
When I have a bit more time I'll fully read through everything else discussed here but I kind of wanted to come in blind just to say things that might not have been possible to say if I had read the thread and been biased by it. In general, I'm unconcerned with what we call things or even how we group things so long as we're open to allowing other types of content. I'm extremely happy discussions are happening and I look forward to movement in some fashion even if it's not exactly what I want.
I've always wanted to have an opportunity for the TAS community in general to hold a speedrunning charity marathon event with enough space for TAS content including content that is emulator based. With help from a ton of people in both the TASVideos community as well as the TASBot community I'm happy to announce TASGiving 2020, to run November 27-29 benefiting National Alliance on Mental Illness. I personally hope we can help raise $10k for a much needed cause with this event.
You can help show commentary infused traditional speedruns, TAS runs on emulator and live on console, and video game exhibitions in a GDQ-esque Twitch livestream. The focus is on rehearsed commentary - for TASVideos.org content you don't have to be the author as long as you follow our attribution guidelines, so keep an open mind about what can be shown. Want to help in some capacity? Fill out the volunteer form at http://v.TASGiving.org or fill out the submissions form at http://s.TASGiving.org if you'd like to get involved, and feel free to discuss below!