GameTree vs Speedrun.com

GameTree is a teammate-finding platform and Discord bot for organizing gaming sessions. Its matching system considers players’ game preferences, playstyle, communication style, values, and personality. Through Scout, users can create live, scheduled, or recurring LFG sessions, with automatic reminders for scheduled play. Scout can open private voice and text channels for a group and remove the channels, posts, and invites when a session ends. Sessions can include players from Scout-enabled servers; server owners can filter or disable cross-server traffic. The bot runs in Discord and supports commands such as /lfg and /sessions. Guests can use Scout without a GameTree account, while personality matching and Steam friend syncing require a free account. GameTree says Scout does not read or store messages in channels where it is not invoked, and says it does not sell or give away personally identifiable or contact information. Its privacy policy also says service data may be used for research and to improve matchmaking and recommendation models. GameTree has Android, iOS, and web platforms; its core LFG features are free.

Speedrun.com hosts communities for thousands of games, bringing together leaderboards, rules, moderators, and participants. Runners can use rankings to track progress, while fans can follow communities. Listed tools include game customization, news, forums, guides, resources, videos, streaming, moderation features, profiles, messages, and notifications. The site also provides a public API and supports account creation with Discord, Twitch, or Google. Speedrun.com lists 20 million yearly visitors, 6.4 million speedruns, 3 million registered users, and 54.6 thousand game communities. Core community features are available on the free plan. Supporter benefits include ad-free browsing, beta features, a supporters-only forum, username animation, an extra badge, and Boosts. A Boost gives three members of a game community 30 days of ad-free access; monthly subscribers receive one every 30 days and annual subscribers receive two. Supporter does not provide speedrunning or game-community management advantages. The API may be revised or discontinued without notice.