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Originally Posted by Not devonin

It substantially increases the song pool in terms of "Songs I can play that are fun, and actually a reasonable challenge for me" for all players.

You can already play the files on rates, no need to change avrank for that.
Like I said, add a metric for it.

Originally Posted by Not devonin

My issue with separate rates leaderboards is that there's either a leaderboard for a couple specific pre-chosen rates, or everybody will be rank 1 on every song on their own particular randomly modified choice of rate, neither of which will make many people happy.

What is that assumption based on ? Osu has the former and they're happy, Etterna has the latter and they're happy. We have neither and we're not happy.

Originally Posted by Not devonin

Just letting them record at all is, I think just a positive change. We can worry about other stuff after that.

You don't care about the "other stuff", but others, like me, do.