Leaderboards and speedrun.com's new terms of service
4 hours ago
- Speedrun.com replaced its terms of use on 1 October 2026, removing the Creative Commons license that previously applied to user data, giving full ownership to parent company Elo.
- The new terms ban non-personal use, define commercial use broadly to include donations, and prohibit competing projects or copying data manually or via bots.
- Community tools, sites, bots, and overlays relying on speedrun.com data are negatively impacted, and inactive runners' runs can no longer be archived or preserved by others.
- Old terms in 2021 were updated after community backlash to restore the CC license, but the new terms remove it again and restrict access to run data.
- The author criticizes the changes for locking out the community that built speedrun.com and warns that speedrunning history now depends on a single closed-data company.