Quote from richard dk :

And then the old LFS nostalgia stuff is gone?

Yes and no

You can't find it on a web page, but I still have everything on my harddrive and I will never delete it

Quote from traxxion :

...lfsnews.net now forwards to lfsworld.net

I've transfered the lfsnews.net domain name over to Victor so he owns it now

Check PM traxxion

Quote from ORION :

vec did you make the new logo btw? its very good

Yep and thanks

As said before I have a few things I want to add to the site, and one of the most important things is the "submit news", and I really want it too

GianniC: I like the idea about the "subforum" or section and I can see your point about getting more "less" important stuff on the site, so a section for user submitted news might be good. I'll definitely look into it

I also want to redesign / restructure the site, but I can't tell when it'll be done

The Ultimate Endurance Record - non-stop-driving for 17 hours by one guy alone

Old record so I don't know if it has been broken again

Happy Birthday Scawen :birthday: resent: :lfs:

The DNS records have been updated and the site is up again...

At least I can see it now

Just a little info...

As some of you know from my last news this Friday, my web-host are updating their servers. Unfortunately the IP addresses changed and I'm still waiting for the info so I can update the DNS records to point to the new IPs.

I'm hoping to get everything up and running tomorrow

Quote from Viper93 :

I have an issue with the site, I cannot create a user account. It doesn't do anything, every time I click register it just refreshes the screen.

Make sure your browser accepts cookies

Quote from dungbeetle :

So is there no where else (apart from occasional posts in the league forums) to get this information at the moment?

There might be a few smaller lists somewhere, but a complete list of all events I believe not. I haven't found one yet at least

Quote from Chris P :

All emails to LFS News will be forwarded to me (at least, not sure about the others) and for the time being there shouldn't be any delays to me reacting to them.

I also get them

Only news sent to [email protected] are forwarded btw

Quote from dungbeetle :

Here's a content suggestion.

How about a single, comprehensive and easy to view list of all forthcoming race events (say a month or so ahead of time) from all the various LFS leagues and competitions, including details of race times and whether or not non-participants are able to spectate? Each league or competition could send their information to LFS News, and everyone would know that LFSN is the place to check for all forthcoming events.

Sorry if this already exists somewhere, but I've been unable to find it if it does - and if it does, can someone tell me where I can find it!

Heh, I have 3-4 bigger things I want to add to the site, and that's actually one them

Thanx for the announcement Scawen :cool:

Just a quick note here to let you know I've made a news post on LFS News about getting new newswriters, and starting a potential community blog.

www.lfsnews.net

Check it out

Well, what can I say... The queue of volunteers is quite empty atm.

I guess posting news/articles isn't the most attractive "job" these days, or maybe the site just needs to be updated to suit the needs of today.

Quote from Tweaker :

Not even any news since July. There has been a lot going on since then. League champions, new leagues starting, big events, etc etc.

I've actually thought about taking site down many times since then, exactly because of that, and because I don't like seeing the site "untouched" myself. But I always changed my mind and let it stay there, sort of acting as an archive rather than a news site, for those few who still browse the site.

I have no intention of closing the site at all, and things will probably change sooner or later. I have plenty of things I want to add or do to the site, and right now I just wish I had a button I could click, and my thoughts were converted to code (I guess Scawen would like the same sometimes). New content is of course needed, and I also want to get back at posting news again... When that time comes I don't know, but I hope soon.

Quote from Scawen :

What was the problem with anonymous posting?

People posting as someone else, spam(not bots) and some illegal stuff were the main reasons back then... It had come to a point where it happened very often and was quite annoying and misleading.

Quote from the_angry_angel :

... and where possible I'll volunteer myself to assist and help out

Sounds cool :cool: (check your PM)

Ok, I'll cut in here and explain a bit...

The site is obviously quite dead/inactive now, I can't deny that.

To cut a long story short this is of course partly my fault, but there're also a few factors I can't control. One important factor is the appreciation from the visitors of all the work the newswriters put into writing articles, and this already began to go slightly downhill back when I removed the ability to post comments anonymously. Articles with almost no comments will seem like no-one care about/reads the articles, and is what I believe caused the drop of news activity in general. Another thing is that I can't/won't force people to post news/articles or comments for that matter. On top of that I started to get more and more inactive and had less time to keep up with all the good stuff going on.

As "the head person" of the site I know I maybe should've done some things differently, like for example getting new/more staff members long time ago.

About the "one-man news resource" thing I have to add this: I control the site yes, but since the start I've always given people access when they asked for it, or permission to post in another section if that was the case. Regarding preferences of admins and chief-editors, the only difference is that they can put news to top news, and admins can delete news.

The future?

Well, if there's anyone here who's willing to help updating the site, and have at least a little knowledge from doing similar things, you are more than welcome to join. I can setup email accounts to those wanting one, and forward news emails as well. I can also give more control to a selected group of people who can be trusted and control it properly (although it's not really that much more that can be controlled).

The "up-to-date blog" idea Dajmin mentions is a good idea I think, and kinda reminds me of RudiTurbo's hotlap news, which were quite popular back then. Any similar blog alike thing might be interesting for people to read, if there's anyone with interesting things to say.

On a final note I'd like apologize to those who have sent emails, and got no response in the past few months. It has been a busy summer...

Replied your pm kamo

I'm hoping to get some more accurate info tonight or tomorrow

Quote from faster111 :

ok i got this info off lfsnews

Looks like a new patch for Live for Speed S2 is coming this month as the official site has been updated tonight. The teasing has started!

Day 1: Tyre Sidewalls
Day 2: Aero physics improvements
Day 3: Single seater dashboards
Day 4: Tyre physics
Day 5: 2 new Aston configs
Day 6: The old blackwood forest guru once said...


wheres day 7,8,9??? anyone know whats going on?

Well, isn't that the same info as you see on www.liveforspeed.net ?

Quote from MyBoss :

this is so mysterious.

And funny...

Quote from Bosse :

Well, I was going to download DRC2006 HQ, came to the page and pressed download and i got no slots available (or what it now says on english)

As far as I know IceAway has set a limit on how many people can download at the same time, which means if that limit has been reached you'll get that message, and you'll have to try again later. I guess you were unlucky as the site didn't respond to your second try

Anyway, I didn't know that this limit was reached on the file server, so I guess one particular movies was quite popular tonight, and made the site server struggle a bit too

Quote from Bosse :

Is Movies Pit down or is it just for me ?

Quote from KeMoT :

Why do you think it is down ?

Well, I see a little confusion here

Let me remind everyone that the movies pit is actually a combination of two hosts! A site host(lfs news) and file host(iceaway)

But since I've had problems myself reaching the site(lfs news/movies pit) I believe it was the site Bosse meant, and not iceaway's server

It seems that the load on the site tonight was extremely high... donno why though, but it looks like it's over now

Last edited by VecTreX, Sun, 9 Apr 2006 22:59.

Awesome tool JogDive, really well made

Compact and fairly straight forward, I like it :cool:

I've posted a little news about it on LFS News also

Quote from d6nn :

cannot download . says ssmthng wrong with directory

Fixed

Quote from fapex :

when i had uploaded my video (precision) i also added a .txt with a little text but it wasn´t used. there ist only a "good movie"

If you still have the text you can pm it to me and I'll update it

Quote from kamo2000 :

well maybe i was to harsh..but it's the way i am..when i think it's crap i say it..this sometimes is wrong..i try to be more gentle..sry..scale 1/10 is a good idea...

Opinions are of course good and can "sometimes" be helpful. A 1-10 scale thing is ok, but it isn't descriptive, and it only shows what you think... And a description about the actual content is what most people want to see when downloading in general, and is also why I made the description "field" in the first place

In the post above about the Battle hard! movie I think is a very good example of a description, which I think speaks for itself and gives people a good indication of whether it's worth downloading or not. But on the download page I only see "3/10 movie"

And that's what bothers me a bit because often the description on the download page is much shorter and different than what I read in this thread, which sometimes give more info about the actual movie content Keep in mind not everyone reads this thread

It's great when people attach a description when uploading their movie, and I know only very few does it, but maybe it would be better if it was made into a rule instead... Making it easier for especially you Kamo, but also helps making the download page better and more informative

About the the deleted instructions issue, I've talked to IceAway and unfortunately it's seems to be a bit complicated than "just" changing permissions

Anyway, just throwing in some things here...

Congratulations Scawen and Geraldine

All the best in the future to all three of you