We have stopped the host and refunded his payment, but we will leave this warning visible in case he starts another host under the same or another user name.

PLEASE BE ALERT AND DO NOT INSTALL SOFTWARE UNLESS YOU KNOW THE SOURCE IS LEGITIMATE

Dear LFS Racers,

We have just learned that a well known unscrupulous user who is known for fraud and piracy has started a server "BRCruise - City Driving".

It is user 'Skinzinho' who we once made the mistake of trusting as a reseller, but when we didn't do everything his way or as quickly as he wanted, he went on to develop "LFS Pro" which was popular as it offered free access to Live for Speed, by use of an alternative master server in Brazil.

He gets users to install his own application, that sits on your computer, constantly downloading never seen ads in the background. This is an act of fraud to extract money from advertising companies. As with any software you install that is provided by a fraudster, there is a severe risk that they will access your hard drive, sending any amount of data including personal and financial data to their own computer.

Skinzinho (aka Negan and various other names) is a dangerous person and I recommend you do not join his server (if you do, he will know your IP address) and UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES install software that he wants you to use.

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Hope this helps!

Thanks, unfortunately the solutions aren't simple, though I'm sure we'll do something eventually.

I'm wondering about a partial solution I could do on my side, an option to export the 7z without including the png files, to reduce the upload size.

For a lot of mods that wouldn't make any difference. The png versions of the texture aren't included in the mod that is downloaded in game. The pngs are really only included in the upload for people who want to make a mod derived from the original mod (if allowed) or maybe if the author's computer dies, they could get a copy of their mod with the original png files. Although we don't guarantee safe storage for mods, this has actually happened before. So there is good reason to have the pngs in there. But I wonder if there should be an option, when exporting from the editor, include png or not?

Last edited by Scawen, Mon 6 May 2024, 16:16.

Thanks, I don't think we need another test at this point. I guess it's just about the size and how the connection happens to be at the time.

I suppose it just depends on if the upload takes less than 100 seconds or not. When it worked OK for you, how long did the upload take?

I am trying to understand if one of these may be the case:
1) Your uploads always take a long time, and sometimes that happens to hit the 100 second limit.
Or:
2) Your uploads usually are quite fast but something can go wrong that makes it takes a long time and eventually fail.

Thanks.

What has happened: after continual DDoS attacks recently, we had to get protected by CloudFlare.

So far that seems fine for everything but this upload timeout. I've notified Victor but I think there is no solution he could do quickly.

Obviously this needs a fix but we'll need a bit of time.

Last edited by Scawen, Fri 3 May 2024, 13:19.

No, we do not change user names and we will not start to do so.

OK, I'll close the thread.

Joe, I know you said you'll think a bit more before posting, and that would be great.

Please remember this is a forum, not an instant chat application. So take some time to form your posts well and not always post the first sentence that comes into your head.

This community includes a lot of older people, including younger adults, middle aged people and we even have users in their eighties. So let's try to keep the conversation mature and think before we post.

What size 7z are you trying to upload? Can you give a rough estimate of the time taken between starting the upload, and the timeout error? I read about some different CloudFlare timeouts such as 15 seconds and 100 seconds.