@xgeekoo You can find the ban reason by looking at his old 5Mods account last comment: https://www.gta5-mods.com/users/InfiniteQuestion
If you want to find the full context, you just need to go to his Gameconfig mod page and read the comments writen back then in February between us.

I don't feel like joining his Discord server to be honest. Specially not after the pearls I could read about me there...

About him coming back to 5Mods... if you want my opinion, I wouldn't mind if wasn't because of the multiple accusations and insults (here on 5Mods, on his own Discord server back then with his friends, etc). There were other reasons for a ban not just that though. Let's say the other reasons were not taken seriously or in consideration in the ban moment.

As you'd understand, we don't want people like that on 5Mods as it's not a constructive, helpful and/or respectful behaviour in any way. Not just for me or the other staff but for the whole community.

If he really wants to come back respecting the site rules and moderation decisions, I suppose we can talk about it on Discord... later. Let me know something.

Still, the unban decision (if happens) would be in consensus with the other moderators, not just me.

@bhavik11 There's not Search function for the Forums.

23 July 2021 -> ScriptHookV updated to 1.0.2372.0 game version.

@Lol-Bro224 Sharing original game files is forbidden. Since you said you have an Epic Games copy, you just need to verify your game files with the Epic Games launcher and it will restore any missing files.

@pandoracube Yes.

@bloodykills No, don't worry. The DMCA's sent are for map mod conversions from other games of Rockstar Games developers, not the site.
There's not any risk of getting the site taken down if the administrators comply with the DMCA requests (which they always do).

@bloodykills Take-Two Interactive DMCA's.

@CBG-Finest-205 People's allowed to upload Menyoo/Map Editor based XML mods as far as the description of the uploads comply with the site rules and regulations https://forums.gta5-mods.com/topic/23971/updated-author-rules-and-regulations.

The most common problem is that FiveM is taking a big part of the modding community to it. Or if I'm more accurate, the modding community for SP decreased at the same time that the FiveM increased due to its popularity but for different reasons. While this can be a good thing for FiveM people, it's the opposite for Singleplayer users like us.

Why?
FiveM mods tend to lack quality, variety and optimization. Is way worse than with SP mods even though it is a common problem there aswell.
FiveM mods are easy to install for FiveM but Singleplayer uses a different and more complex installation process depending on the mod type. That's mostly why we always have to ask mod uploaders to don't upload FiveM-only mods in this platform (which they do more frequently than we would like to... ) and/or adapt their mods to work with Singleplayer aswell.

If we add the fact that some good mod creators switched to platforms like Patreon and some of them also do FiveM-only mods (God save us from FiveM-only paid mods... what a dissaster and waste would that be for our game performance and budget), the situation is even worse.

Is the community dead?
No, at all. But it's turning into a mix between SP and FiveM mods which decreases the quality and variety of the uploads of both. That's a lose-lose for the whole community.

What do I expect to happen in the future:
GTA V E&E getting released for PC. This would mean that all the current mods for both SP and FiveM won't work, none of them would. The modding community would need to switch and start modding the new GTA engine and probably the first community to get success (quality) in that would still be the Singleplayer one.