how does this happen in 2025 like wtf is there noone else to hire

I've also seen it used for archiving media, I guess assuming that the blockchain must protect them from copyright law and DMCAs lmfao?

the server crashed :P itll pick itself up eventually

Yeah, I probably won't bring much new to the table here but it'll be fun to make some light comparisons against it even if my dataset doesn't include exhaustive historical data like Twitch

We likely can't take requests for channels or videos to add at this time but Twitch has shared some instructions on how you can save you or your friends' channels: tos.gg/how-to-downl...

We won't be able to save the entire website, but we have already nearly finished scraping the metadata for every video on Twitch, and will likely do another pass of non-speedrunning but highly-viewed videos once our current queue finishes.

really well said, i think tasvideos does a decent job at this of having "categories" instead referred to as "goals" and using them to accurately describe the actual intention of the run as opposed to what constraints it happens to follow

FYI: For each of the 90K broadcasts I also scraped the runner's whole channel and found a further ~1.5M highlights pending deletion but unfortunately even a 144p archive of this would be over a petabyte. It's not viable to save *everything* but we can at least do real submitted & verified runs

Expect some more information on speedrun.club once I'm closer to having something to share 💖
If anyone has any lists of highlights (or even API endpoints to scrape) from other speedrunning websites like Mega Man Leaderboards feel free to DM me and I'll add them to the queue!

is this a protest against the yellow ACE lol? if this trend is to keep up im expecting a ton on april 1

Definitely an attempt to! Completely broken and only accidentally kinda achieves its goal, but an attempt nonetheless. I assume it was a communication issue between the devs & localizers, although I'm not sure why localizers would try to use RegEx, or how a dev wouldn't notice it wasn't supported?

Bonus fact: the game doesn't even support RegEx here! Instead it uses an algorithm where it iterates over every possible subsection of the name to see if it matches a banned term which is highly inefficient!

While this "E" filter was a made-up example, some REAL examples of blocked text from the game include: ay, ey, io, aer, ea, eoa, ie, ier, let, & ward. (I won't share the full list; I'm not sure what it's for exactly but I assume it's Chinese slurs.)

The issue is that the RegEx tries to use the | symbol, except that's exactly the same symbol that the game already uses to break apart the whole list of filters! This means the 1 RegEx filter actually becomes 3: "L(A", "E", and "U)X"… This 2nd filter then blocks any name with an "E" in it! 💀