LFE (and HFE) got two downtimes today and two days ago so I thought it`s time to inform you why:

The bot of chinese searching machine Baidu "visited" our website those two times, but unlike other bots he created tons of traffic so the automatic protection system of my webhost locked my account temporary. Normally our daily traffic is between 15 and 40 GB (LFE is 2GB large), but this bot manage it to create a traffic volume of 70 to 80 GB somehow, dont ask me how.

We locked out the bot now and the problem should be solved, the bad thing is that you can read through the internet that this Bot ignore robots.txt file, so he still might visit LFE - we hope not...

The theme was to cosplay as an LF2-character. 5 people participated:

Bamboori (Click to View)

empirefantasy (Click to View)

koori-youkai (Click to View)

LutiChris (Click to View)

Magnificient Mango (Click to View)

First contest of the new year, let's start with something never seen before

Pose as your favorite LF2-character

Requirements:

• Dress yourself up as an LF2-character
  
• Only the original characters, no custom-made ones
  
• You may apply post-work to your photos (editing and such) to resemble the respective character clearer
  
• One entry per participant

Hi guys,

we dont have a rule right now limiting the size of the signatire and whoevers sig was to large got a pm where i requested to reduce the height. Those days I have to do this twice a week, so here`s the offer:

Care that your sig is below 200 px and everything is fine. I dont want to write 2 or 3 pms a week about this topic. If it wont work we simply get a rule and warnings for this...

Bye
Razen