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[Mike DA Spike]

 

Love to know whose unsupervised child caused this mess

It was Alex's little brother the little shit

 

Must be a 'charlie'  

[Noah Fentz]

We are once again live!

 

Some files are once again empty, as they were uploaded before the backup was created.

 

We're going to an hourly backup schedule until the problem is found and eradicated.

[jino0372]

Hi Noah,

 

FYI - Topper images are again saying no access.

[Noah Fentz]

Hi Noah,

 

FYI - Topper images are again saying no access.

 

I'm still working through the permissions. They should be live again.

[Justthebest]

So I re uploaded my one missing download yesterday. I confirmed a few hours later that it was there and available and download worked. Today it’s gone again.  
Sorry for all the issues you have had due to one bad actor. 

[Noah Fentz]

So I re uploaded my one missing download yesterday. I confirmed a few hours later that it was there and available and download worked. Today it’s gone again.  
Sorry for all the issues you have had due to one bad actor. 

 

Yeah, we're doing the best we can to restore. Some files will once again have to be uploaded.  

[unclewilly]

hey paul.  can you send me a pm when i can upload to the vpx recreations section.  my upload button is greyed out.  just trying to update or reupload gorgar.

thanks paul

[bigus1]

Trying to upload but when I click Attach File, a line of dots and dashes appears above the button and nothing further happens.

[Noah Fentz]

Trying to upload but when I click Attach File, a line of dots and dashes appears above the button and nothing further happens.

 

Is it larger than 100MB?

 

We're currently running some security measures to keep the site safe from unwanted intrusions. Unfortunately, one side effect of this limits uploads to 100MB temporarily.

 

We will be running the first attempt to update the forum software very soon, which is always an adventure! Once finished, things will be getting back to normal around here.

[bigus1]

105mb

[Noah Fentz]

105mb

Can you compress it further? .rar, maybe?

[Itchigo]

Unfortunately, one side effect of this limits uploads to 100MB temporarily.

 

 

 

I remember a time when we gave Faralos crap over having 100MB tables... Now it's the norm.

[digitalarts]

...not for JP... He do his magic mostly in 10-15 mb ;-)

[DonRobby]

Even with webp files my mod is still 128mb, making it a rar file and compressing it at the highest setting still is not enough to get it below 100

[madmatt666]

I can't even access the Downloads, VPX area, is this part affected also? I can access the other areas, but nothing in VPX downloads.

[Noah Fentz]

Downloads restored ... again.

 

One of the backup methods failed due to a typo in the licensing IP [we're human] but thankfully we plan for this sort of thing and had another set of backups that were not quite as frequent.  We have fixed the issue with the primary backups and have also set up another secondary set of backups that run every 15 minutes.  Moving forward until this is resolved we should be able to roll back no further than 15 minutes when it comes to Uploads.

As always we apologize for any problems this may cause you - we're actively working to identify the cause of the problem so that we can prevent it.

We're also working on updating the software that runs the site which should close this hole as well - but this is a massive undertaking that will take a lot of work and effort as well as time to complete.  We could shove that through now and lose most of the functionality you love about our site and we don't feel that is ideal - so we are doing what we can to get this done as quickly as possible.

[wiesshund]

Even with webp files my mod is still 128mb, making it a rar file and compressing it at the highest setting still is not enough to get it below 100

upload as a multipart zip

[DonRobby]

What a silly suggestion, you actually think I would go through all that effort knowing some guy just downloads one part and reports the table broken.
And with the update that also needs to be uploaded this will become messy from day 1.

Also that would mess up the download numbers and I am a mathmatician.

So what you are suggesting will never happen for any of these reasons.

 

This limit is a joke for 2023 standards and should be removed or raised so most tables with a VR-Hybrid option can be uploaded here.

But no status updates, nothing.

Can I say out loud that I feel left outside in the cold too long now?

This mess is taking way too long. I did my part and reached out to JP to show my respect and maybe I should accept that I did everything possible to get his wish forfilled.

But now I am getting to a point where I want to give up because I am getting stressed out over something I can't control.

How about sombebody reaching out to offer help with a real solution, possibly add an external link as the main download.

Or manually uploading the table on the server like VPU did in the past for Knorr.

The table deserves more then being a hidden piece inside the forum with 2 links taking up my own cloud storage, just to be forgotten because it doesn't have a decent entry point on this domain

[wiesshund]

What a silly suggestion, you actually think I would go through all that effort knowing some guy just downloads one part and reports the table broken.
And with the update that also needs to be uploaded this will become messy from day 1.

Also that would mess up the download numbers and I am a mathmatician.

So what you are suggesting will never happen for any of these reasons.

 

This limit is a joke for 2023 standards and should be removed or raised so most tables with a VR-Hybrid option can be uploaded here.

But no status updates, nothing.

Can I say out loud that I feel left outside in the cold too long now?

This mess is taking way too long. I did my part and reached out to JP to show my respect and maybe I should accept that I did everything possible to get his wish forfilled.

But now I am getting to a point where I want to give up because I am getting stressed out over something I can't control.

How about sombebody reaching out to offer help with a real solution, possibly add an external link as the main download.

Or manually uploading the table on the server like VPU did in the past for Knorr.

The table deserves more then being a hidden piece inside the forum with 2 links taking up my own cloud storage, just to be forgotten because it doesn't have a decent entry point on this domain

 

Other things aside, you fulfill JP's wishes or
You do not mod JP's tables.

That part is simple.

 

As for the rest, Noah is working on it.
The man does have a job, and a family to feed, and other real life things that demand his time.
And he literally posted a status update on the 19th

 

I had to break my own table into multiple downloads

i simply wrote that in the download description, people will read it and figure it out

mostly

The ones that don't will ask, hopefully.
If they don't, i won't die over it.

It wasn't really stressful, couple mouse clicks and presto, there it was.

 

It works until Noah can redo things, without breaking the site in the process

[DonRobby]

I have uploaded it before and then it was gone and then this downloadlimit that hinders me from re-uploading it since that day was even unknown to Noah at the time and had to learn about it from me, so I did my part.

Or maybe you are not aware that I only released 1 table so far, Transformers and you have been reacting in that topic I mentioned as well.

Now as a old website designer myself I can say making a topic by hand and adding a file onto the webspace server will definitly not break any website ever...