Erik

Your upgrade to the Free Membership hadn't happened yet. There's a 5-10 minute delay from login to account upgrade. The task has to get in line with all the other things happening behind the scenes. This is just normal operation of the new system so we don't cancel paid memberships or knock the admins off their accounts by mistake. Glad it's working as intended.

I have no idea, we have thousands of files and hundreds of directories. Make my job easy and link the file or provide a URL so I can look at the specific file and category listing. That's probably what I'd say you're missing. Thanks for the report and let me know what you come up with.

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/zemkes-wolfpack-famed-p-47-fighter-group/ I changed all our group names for members to be fighter squadron names, might change them but I was tired of the old basic names.

Fixed

I reset the permission set and I've tested it multiple times. Everything says it should be working.

Didn't know you never saw it before, interesting. The minimum is 5 seconds because of the way we're storing files now, the system has to grab it and stage it for download. Thanks for the field report.

I guess it helps if I take that subscription plan I was working on out of testing mode. Sorry, I'm not all there apparently. Try again and let me know. For everyone that might be confused or that I confused. I edited my original post to update the program. New members start off in the JAGDSTAFFEL 11 (Red Baron's Squadron). After completing two posts in the forums within the past 45 days, and your account is 30 days or older your account will promote to the HAT IN THE RING Squadron. Once you've been promoted the Free Subscription automatically gets added to your account. It will take the task 5-10 minutes to poll the membership and make the promotions after you've logged in. That's the final piece if nothing is happening, log out and back in again. Once the task sees the new log in salt it knows to check your account.

If your account isn't bumping; try logging and out, closing the browser, and then logging back in. That should trigger the task to promote your account, takes about 10 minutes to run after fresh log in. Report back if it's working or still broken.

The best part of working for you all is the pure level of positivity and encouragement you foster among the ranks.

Still working on getting it to work right, it has thrown me a couple curve balls but I'll get there.

One of my new scripts is failing to pull members into the group set, give me a little bit to work out why.

FREE MEMBERSHIPS RESTORED FREE Memberships are now automatic and provide 2 files per day. If the system isn't abused we can discuss increasing the number of downloads the FREE Membership provides. Account promotions will automatically be given to your account when you meet the following guidelines. MEET THESE REQUIREMENTS 1. Your account is 30 days or older. 2. Your account has made 2 posts in the forums in the last 45 days. 3. Log out and back in. Top Right Corner of browser window > Click your user image > Sign Out > Close your browser > Open browser > Sign in to reset our user salt. CHANGE 10/21/25 Got a lot of PMs about people having problems so I moved everyone back into our new member status so the system can upgrade your accounts the next time you log in. To get your promotions you have to meet the requirements above, log out and then log back in, the system will do the rest. Paid memberships will function independently and exclusively as they always have.

New program implemented. FREE Memberships are now automatic and provide 1 file per day. If the system isn't abused we can discuss increasing the number of downloads the membership provides. The FREE Membership is now automatic and it's issued when you meet these guidelines. 1. Your account is 30 days or older. 2. Your account has made a post in the forums in the last 45 days. If you meet these two requirements NEW accounts AKA the now AIRMAN BASIC accounts will promote to AIRMAN accounts and provide the FREE Membership automatically. Existing members, if you make a post in the forums your account will upgrade automatically. Why is a post in the forums needed, so we can add more details to your account profile. Those details can be matched against other accounts, even those with no posts, and we'll go back to quietly suspending accounts that abuse the system by creating duplicate accounts. The 30 day delay is the pause built in to stop people from creating multi accounts. If this works we can expand on the idea. Paid memberships will function independently and exclusively as they always have.

Place holders while I implement some of this.

Mue I really don't have time for this right now. It's over a $1000 a month to host high availability live data like ours. I research it every month in hopes the prices come down. It's not like using cloud storage like you'd buy for one-drive or from amazon, those prices are dirt cheap because it's low access content.

Ive reached out multiple times with no answer. I will also add our traffic is skewed really heavily with Europe, South America, and Africa being primary aggressors, the US is in the mix with China and Malaysia right behind them.

I am sleep deprived and working on caffeine only. I fix, no worries.

So the problem is you lost your modder status not that the forum is jenky. I fix, no worries.

It's intended space for the download system to post to that category but not members. Members should be able to reply in that space but not post new topics. Admins, and modders should have access to post there as well but I'll have to check the settings. That's what I remember anyway.

That's hilarious .. the name of our Apache machine is Dozer and MySQL runs on Trinity.

The two mods you uploaded, thank you I'll get those removed right away. I have been more transparent about this topic, more than anyone I know, that statement alone is offensive. I have churned through countless posts in the past and disclosed our situation many times, your questions are not new. Our current port 80 accessible files reside on just over 2G of physical space, db and system files currently hovering around 1G. We are housed in a Class I data center in North America that sits on global fiber giving us access to push 1 gigabyte of data every second. We are a clustered running on Linux supported metal and current AMP distributions depending on the machine. Our MDU consists of Tier I and Tier II backbones so we don't use a provider we use many at the same time based on traffic peering and routes. Our bandwidth monthly aggregate average is 2.3 to 2.4 TB, peaks are 5TB and higher. The quick math is that's 1000GB = 1TB. Spikes and use don't translate very well into useful information. What about a reverse proxy setup? That's the most out of left field question ever. A reverse proxy would conceal our machines behind a network layer so they become invisible. That layer would destroy throughput and normal access to the site by users and is the absolute opposite of what we'd want. As I mentioned earlier you are not connecting to a Slackware box sitting in my basement. We have a fully established network of gear sitting on the edge of some of the world's most powerful ports directly connected to the global internet. Our cost's consist of three primary vectors when it relates to what we do. 1. Cabinet Space: we rent space in a hardware cabinet that is the physical space where our servers reside, they are sold in 1U units and we occupy 4 of them. 2. Bandwidth: we don't have a "plan" like a home user. We buy our bandwidth by the GB bucket which again doesn't relate well to use or throughput, it's a total aggregate of overhead, inbound, and outbound traffic. 3. Administrative Costs: This would include everything from software licensing fees, domain related fees, taxes and accounting, IP related fees, insurance, and the list goes on. What does it cost to run this place? Our base cost to sit idle is $30 per day add connectivity $40-$45 per day and those are averaged days, we often spike way above those numbers with daily costs getting into the $70 range. What are you going to optimize? Put this same setup on the cloud and you're looking at doubling our costs. On the cloud bandwidth is cheap but the disk space costs are not. Things are not getting cheaper anywhere, especially here America. We aren't buying a Telstra Unlimited Data Plan for $129 AUD per month mate, I hope that's apparent. This was a time sink, and it likely won't happen again. Be well.

As EricJ mentioned and as the other posts have mentioned that project is under review for retooling due to abuse.

Click your member icon top right corner, under your name it should show your current rank and progress to the next rank using the new system which is not personalized. It's the one showing those funny badges over our images to the left, like I have a red circle with what look a large lady bending over to put on skirt. It's really humorous but I think we can improve it.

You guys are looking at all the wrong things. This is what CA really looks like to me, this IS the pretty stuff.

@Wrench is probably the place to start, he's got all the Modders on speed dial in his 1995 Motorola flip phone. I just keep the rubbish bins empty around here. Photo of the real moneymaker below.