We're aware of the issue and think it's a change that the ad provider has made today to their code, which has screwed us over. The fix, believe it or not, is to use an adblocker.
It's 10.40pm in the UK right now, so the programmers won't be online for another 10 hours or so to see if they can do anything to fix it.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
PS. We intend to make the site completely ad free for verified mod authors in the next coding run we do for 5Mods.
They definitely should not be auto-playing sound. We've informed the ad provider of this issue.
Nope, that's not correct, @Reyser
The avatar issue was a bug for some time while Rappo was still maintaining the site. He was making live changes to the database manually to "fix" this issue on a case by case basis, but we do not do that as it's not a good practise to do any more.
Right now, there is no fix. I hope we can get someone to fully look at the issue in the not too distant future just to confirm once and for all whether it can be fixed at all!
It doesn't escalate any further than me.
The author of the vehicle you are skinning specifically states his terms on his page, saying:
Random parts of the model have been mapped to the skin. Changing the skin will make textures look dodgey. On this note, please DO NOT upload reskins without first asking permision.
As such, the moderation team have done nothing wrong.
Since you have threatened legal action, however ridiculous the notion, I will now suspend your account as per our Terms of Service and leave this to my solicitor, should I hear anything from yours. You shall receive no further direct communication from me on this matter, or any matter to do with the site.
Have a great day.
Thank you for all the superfluous sarcasm. It was really helpful and will no doubt help us to resolve this issue faster.
Regardless, we have placed a ticket in our bug tracker to take a look at the issue of spaces causing complications in the search.
Unfortunately there's nothing we can do as we do not own the copyright on the mods made.
Authors need to DMCA the site, and their host, as I think it is safe to assume the site owner is the one who is actually doing this and therefore he's unlikely to give a shit about DMCA takedowns or, you know, copyright law.
They are currently pushing their traffic behind CloudFlare, so first port of call is to file a copyright/DMCA takedown request using their form here: https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/form
If you're a mod author whose mod is on that site and you care about this person reuploading your work and making money from it, you need to be the one to file the complaint as you are the copyright owner of your mod. No one else can legally file the complaint for you.
I can't reproduce the issue with the links. On my test file, if I add the following, it works fine:
<a href="http://www.google.com">Testing Links</a>
We're finding it very hard to lock down exactly what it is that is causing the issue in a repeatable fashion across multiple files, i.e. what doesn't work on some files, does work on others.
Taken another look at this today and your code actually works absolutely fine on my test page. Still exploring what it could be.
Yes, I think it's to do with how you've formatted the HTML. Some tags are in the wrong place/order which, on top of those special characters, is causing an issue. But it's late and I don't want to refactor all your description HTML to try and find where the exact issue lies.
@Gta5KoRn Ok so, after testing, the problem isn't the length of the description. The problem seems to have something to do with the special characters in your description. If I remove the down arrows at the bottom, the right arrows and the bullet points at the top, it works. If I leave them in, it gives that error.
It's likely a bad mix of special characters and HTML which is causing the error. I advise removing those items and just having a little play around with it.