Leaderboards and speedrun.com's new terms of service
On 1 October 2026, speedrun.com replaced its terms of use for the first time since 2021. The old terms were a result of a large community backlash due to the removal of the so-called Creative Commons licence. Yesterday, they went ahead with the removal once again.
- ▪On 1 October 2026, speedrun.com replaced its terms of use for the first time since 2021.
- ▪The old terms were a result of a large community backlash due to the removal of the so-called Creative Commons licence.
- ▪Yesterday, they went ahead with the removal once again.
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| Original publisher | The Run |
| Canonical URL | https://therun.gg/blog/leaderboards-speedruncom |
| Publication time | Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:07:05 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-02T18:46:16.423Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-02T18:46:16.423Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | MF-QqLCE20x- · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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On 1 October 2026, speedrun.com replaced its terms of use for the first time since 2021. The old terms were a result of a large community backlash due to the removal of the so-called Creative Commons licence. Yesterday, they went ahead with the removal once again. This means the data that you own that is on speedrun.com no longer falls under Creative Commons, and the full database is now owned by Elo, speedrun.com’s parent company.Before I begin, full disclosure: I run therun.gg, a free, ad-free speedrun stats site funded by donators on Patreon. These terms obviously affect me, and a few clauses in the new terms of use seem to be written with sites like therun in mind.
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