Hi everyone,

 

We've really been busy recently behind the scenes working on a few features for the site. We've already soft launched quite a lot, and we thought it was time to sit down and announce a lot of what we've done the past couple months. So here it is, a round-up of all the new features since the start of the year. Some you may have seen, and others you might have missed.

 

LSPDFR Sync: Leaderboard

Let's start with one that I think a lot of you have noticed. We're proud to now officially launch our LSPDFR Sync leaderboard system.

The LSPDFR Sync leaderboard system currently tracks three core stats right now: cuffs, pullovers and times you've reported for duty.
You'll find your highest character rank on the portal page, below the top #5 to quickly identify where you rank in comparison to your fellow officers across the world.

We have big plans for expanding the LSPDFR Sync system even further, including a developer API for plugin developers to record their own stats as well as increment other built-in core stats.

 

Downloads: Download History and Trending/Featured and tweaks
A lot of feedback we've received from people is that they would like a place where they can see what they've downloaded, and what exactly has changed.

Our new Download History page will show what you've downloaded, whether it has an update, if you've reviewed the file, if you're subscribed for updates and more -- all on a single page. You can even sort through the files as if you're on a normal download list page.

The new Trending and Featured pages will show all the respective trending and featured downloads. These pages are quite basic right now, but we're working on making them a lot more useful.

We've also changed the structure of the file links. They are now far more descriptive, including the game and category. 

For example: https://www.lcpdfr.com/downloads/gta5mods/g17media/7792-lspd-first-response/

Don't worry! All old style links work and will continue to work in the future.

 

LML: User Contributions

Does your favourite LCPDFR.com mod not support LML, but you've already gone through the work of converting it for use for LML?

Now you can share your LML install.xml for a mod on LCPDFR.com, enabling automatic hassle-free installation of that mod for everyone.

To get started, simply click 'Contribute an LML install.xml' beneath the 'Download with Mod Manager' button on a file page.

After your installation file has been added, the 'Download with Mod Manager' button will be enabled for that file, which will use the contributed install.xml file. The original file and download are not modified or changed in anyway.

Right now, files with LML contributions are not tagged as being LML-compatible. We'll be making changes to our 'LML Compatible' and 'FiveM Ready' options on files in the coming days, with these things being auto-detected, instead of relying on correct tagging.

 

Resources: GTA5 Native Database, GTA5 Vehicle Database and homepage

Whilst creating our new site, Mod-RDR.com, for modding Red Dead Redemption 2 we worked on creating a powerful developer Wiki with a lot of features. Mod-RDR.com is still one of top places for knowledge on modding RDR2, with documentation and lists on natives, peds, clothes, vehicles (horses) and much more.

One of the features we were particular happy with was making our RDR2 Native Database, which documents the game's native functions.
If you have modded GTA5 or a previous Rockstar Games title you'll know natives are functions exposed by the game for use by the games' developers.
Our native database is a little bit different from other native database projects, instead using an actual relational database with rich Wiki features and a comment section on each native. We decided it would be useful to bring this to GTA5, so we have, and you can find it here.

In addition, we've partnered with GTABase.com to show their amazing vehicle database on our Resources section, as well as display their news feed on our homepage. Trending mods from LCPDFR.com will now show on their homepage and hopefully attract even more people to the world of GTA modding.

 

Continuing Optimizations

We've also been trying to get the website to run a lot faster. Over the past few months, we've been identifying a lot of pages which aren't running as fast as we'd hope.

As an example, one of these was the downloads page. Due to a design decision on the side of our forum software vendor, we were seeing the downloads page using up to 200+ queries, with most of these simply querying for screenshot data. On bad days, this took up to 2 seconds to complete. We've made a bunch of changes on our end, rewriting how this system grabs file data, and we managed to take this down to single digit queries to the database. Now the page takes only a few milliseconds to render, making the experience better for everyone.

We also changed how our frontends talk to our backend server, optimizing the encryption used by changing to using Elliptic Curve cryptography, which is much faster than before.

 

 

We're always happy to hear your feedback. If you've got any ideas on what we should work on next with the website, or any comments on the above please let us know.

 

Cyan

LSPDFR needs to be optimized for added plugins and scripts a little more but other than that great job and keep up the good work!!!

how does it track it down? even if you use other plugins instad of lspdfr? because i make alot of arrests but it says i only have lik 48 lol .

8 hours ago, Officer Joey Kuffman said:

how does it track it down? even if you use other plugins instad of lspdfr? because i make alot of arrests but it says i only have lik 48 lol .

As far as I know, it is only LSPDFR arrests. I could be wrong though.


I also wanna say that I think the history of what we have downloaded is an awesome idea. I can remember the countless times I have had to update stuff and go searching through everything to find the right downloads I needed.

Edited March 10, 20206 yr by UnknownBastion
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Awesome work, as always!

when are we able to change our age in lspdfr caracter tab? seems to be if you cant change it it should not be there? 

13 hours ago, Shadow119335 said:

LSPDFR needs to be optimized for added plugins and scripts a little more but other than that great job and keep up the good work!!!

This news post is mostly centered around our work for LCPDFR.com, but I do understand what you're saying. LSPDFR has been through countless optimization cycles and profiling. There's still room for micro improvements, but any more substantial gains will be found from third-party callout packs and other mods being optimized more than they currently are.

 

12 hours ago, Officer Joey Kuffman said:

how does it track it down? even if you use other plugins instad of lspdfr? because i make alot of arrests but it says i only have lik 48 lol .

If you use another modification that overrides LSPDFR's default arrest behaviour, these arrests won't be counted. One of the things we'll be working on when we get some time is a developer API for third-party developers to use the LSPDFR Sync system.

 

2 hours ago, Officer Joey Kuffman said:

when are we able to change our age in lspdfr caracter tab? seems to be if you cant change it it should not be there? 

It's definitely on our roadmap, I know this has been asked a few times. It's likely code will be added in a future LSPDFR release to support this.

Always nice to see the development of the site. 
Good job on that! 

Good Job Guys Keep it up with all yalls hard work this site LSPDFR is ROCKING!!!!!

Leaderboard wont work with Albo mods or bejoijo you better post it too!

 

and it seems to be updated once again windows or any plugins dont run anymore

Edited March 15, 20206 yr by DatzeScaniaV8

2 hours ago, DatzeScaniaV8 said:

Leaderboard wont work with Albo mods or bejoijo you better post it too!

 

and it seems to be updated once again windows or any plugins dont run anymore

If you saw what Cyan said, they are looking to get developer API for third-party plugin/mod makers to use so it will work with LSPDFR Sync.

2 minutes ago, UnknownBastion said:

If you saw what Cyan said, they are looking to get developer API for third-party plugin/mod makers to use so it will work with LSPDFR Sync.

Cool!

Our changes to how FiveM and LML compatible files are identified are now live. LCPDFR.com will now auto-detect FiveM ready files as well as LML compatible files and have them filterable accordingly.

We've also introduced a new 'Rating' filter. You can now filter files to find only five star files, four stars and above, and three stars and above.

If you're using LML, you can now filter by files which we think can be automatically imported into LML.

To do this, select 'Yes, include convertable'.

 

 

We've also fixed an issue that LSPDFR Sync private characters would still be visible in certain circumstances.

We've just put out another update making the downloads listing pages more responsive. Using any of the quick filters shown below the category bar on listing pages will no longer cause the entire page to be refreshed, just the table, it's now far faster to filter and find files that you're looking for.

i need help but good work guys some one reach out to me please thanks 

On 4/6/2020 at 9:02 PM, clubkingstalent said:

i need help but good work guys some one reach out to me please thanks 

 

Please post in the appropriate support section and someone will reply.

In response to COVID-19, we're continuously monitoring the situation with the site and taking any action needed to keep the site fast for everyone.
In March 2020, we seen the largest number of people online in LCPDFR.com history, partially in response to the millions more working from home during these times and partially to the organic growth of people discovering LSPDFR and the absolutely game-changing GTA V mod scene.
We want to do everything we can to not disappoint people and we've been working on additional optimizations and monitoring so we can keep the website available and highly responsive.

 

A peak into our infrastructure monitoring dashboard.

 

During this time, along with higher site traffic, we've also seen a large increase in the number of reports of rule breaking content. Most of these violations are from these new members of the community who aren't aware of our rules. Our great Community Team is doing a fantastic job keeping on top of reports and making sure situations are dealt with in a timely manner. We thank everyone who points out violations of our rules, these help us make the community better for everyone.

 

To all of our community at this time, we hope yourselves and your families are safe and well. And let's hope everything goes to back to normal soon.

 

Cyan.

Update 3rd May 2020: All files from new authors will now be subject to a manual review process. This is a temporary measure in response to the increased activity on the site. Creators, if a file you've uploaded to the site has been pending approval for more than 24 hours, please report it to us.

 

We have been working on a more long term trust-based system for deciding which files will undergo a manual review process, which isn't quite ready yet.

It's been quite a busy week for all of us at LCPDFR.com.

 

If you've not already seen, we've been working on becoming a little bit more active on video. This week we've launched our new Mod Spotlight series, along with releasing a new video tutorial on installing LSPDFR aimed at our new Epic Games newcomers.

We've also been in the process of fixing some longstanding shortcomings with the website. We've restored our previously broken capability to increase file upload limits per-user. If you're running into difficulties with our 1GB limit, this can now be bumped to 4GB.

Some optimizations to the overall site experience have been made, including fixes to our Security Check/approval process, and backend changes which will speed up the site.

Along with the normal traffic increase due to the global situation, we've seen yet another surge in traffic from the Epic Games promotion. Our servers are continuing to hold up to the challenge of providing the site and its downloads and we continue to monitor the situation.

 

Again, from all of us here, we're hoping everyone is continuing to do well in these different times. Take care.