Hey guys, I don't know if it is just an isolated situation or if other simmers are also having this issue.

When I try to go into the Nraas site, I get this "I've been blocked" page (pictured)

At the bottom of the page, it says "Cloudflare Ray ID: 9fd1d9a89dfd09e7" and it says I need to email the owner (pictured)

I have no idea if it's means anything, nor do I know how to get a hold of the guys at Nraas.

Is it a regional thing? (I'm currently logged in from Hong Kong).
If anyone can let me know what's going on & what can be done to rectify this, much appreciated.

I'm in Canada. With and without a VPN, and different browsers, it's not working for me either. Must be a problem at their end.

If you need one of their mods, there is a Sim File Share folder.

https://simfileshare.net/folder/183369/

The website server is currently in crisis, please check back every hour or so to catch it when it's live.

https://www.nraas.net/community/topic15428

Thanks, but the Error Trap in that folder still cause my game to be unable to boot up; original reason why I wanted to go to the site. It was saying one of the mod was either corrupted or not up to date (& I isolated it to be their Errortrap mod).

That happens to me, when I use an outdated or unsupported browser, like an old chrome version or so (I run Sims 3 on a Win 7 machine still).
Anywho, IT troubleshooting step 1: Try a different browser.
NRAAS / Cloudflare seems to be quite strict about their access policy, when it comes to outdated / unsupported browsers, and it will show the "you have been blocked" message.
On the Windows 7 machine I use to play Sims 3, I can open the NRAAS site on Firefox, but not chrome, for example, cause the version of chrome is obviously shit-old.
Not sure if it has to do with you being located in China at the moment, but yeah, geo-bans are also a thing.

I'm opening from Microsoft Edge ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Unless your Edge is utterly outdated, and the result is the same on another browser, Cloudflare might have a hard lock on China for the time being. I can open the NRAAS site from Romania with no issues, even on my Windows 7 machine.
A VPN set to another (Western) country IP is your best bet, then.

I'm just going to quote Chain-Reaction's note about this. They also introduced a verification thingy to keep bots at bay.
Today, May 31.



February 26

Same here from Hong Kong.
I just want to get information from the site.

What info you need?
If it's not an encyclopedia worth, I can just pop you a copy paste.

Thanks for your enthusiasm. Actually, I used to check the function and setting of mods from the site.
However, I think these are too many for you to move it here.

For me that site is blocked by that insulting Clodflare nonsense; at least with Firefox, I can go there with DuckDuckGo browser with no problems.

Hi everyone,

The site is going to be under scheduled maintenance for the next 10+ days and will not be accessible, but once the server relocation is complete things should be much better

As for the region blocks, please note that it's for good reason and certainly not personal.
The CloudFlare protection was necessary to mitigate severe DDoS attacks - something else that actively harms the connection for everyone else and drives up site costs.
In the future, consider any free / built-in VPN for casual access from blocked locales - and as noted in the quotes a few replies back, when the site is live again you're welcome to contact the site owner to be granted a permanent exception.

Lol, I haven't the ego to think it was personal.

I do deem Clodflare to be hypocritical and insulting; they want to prevent bots on their systems by forcing us to allow their bots on our systems ...height of hypocrisy, and I'll have none of it. And they want me, an alleged human, to prove to their bot that I am not a bot; not happening. I would love a program, would even pay for it, that would bounce all this back to the Clodflare servers with a "prove YOU are not a bot" request.

I do use a VPN on occasion, though would never pay for one (why pay for a service which any website in the world can freely block).

Now when/if Clodflare can accomplish their purpose while keeping their mitts out of my computer, I will support their efforts. It is curious, however, that on the same computer, same OS, same IP, same ISP, they blocked Firefox but not DuckDuckGo. So I could still access that site.

End of soapbox. And thanks for the info.

I'm not sure what you are meaning here- you know that this very website, Modthesims, also uses Cloudflare CDN?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network

"...you know that this very website, Modthesims, also uses Cloudflare"

But it has never bothered me here, never blocked me, never wanted me to prove I'm not a bot; in fact this is the first mention I've seen here regarding it. So no problem.

My Nraas errortrap was crashing my game; says that it's either bugged or I don't have the updated version. Which is why I was trying to go to the Nraas site in the first place. In the end, I'm currently running the game without Nraas Errortrap. I don't know if it'll crash the game eventually.

The errortrap download from this link here:

Also seems to crash the game as well. so...... :/

You might not believe it, but I am running my game entirely without Errortrap or Overwatch and such. And I am running this game on a dedicated Win7 machine with just 8 GB of RAM.
Problem is that these mods will catch script heavy mods, like KW and so on as exceptions, trying to fix shit that they aren't supposed to.
You can play a healthy game easily without those error catching mods. Unless you tend to play in Bridgeport, probably XD
That world is just a hot mess.
I do a ton of manual tuning instead.
ET and OW are just mods for lazy people that run no other script heavy mods. I had them installed once, watched them break half my game, removed them, and since then all is fine.
If you are some sims streamer running half a dozen different 4k skins as mods only and a ton of clothing... sure.... they will do their job. If you run KW or anything similar, shit will break in hilarious ways.

If you mean kinkyworld, then I'm pretty sure Nraas have been clear that their mods are not compatible with this. Which is probably why you had issues.

Yes, I do and no, you are wrong.
I also know that the guy I answered to is using KW. We are both active users on LL. I am actually in the process of recoding the KW High School system. (Ha, I bet that's a tidbit you didn't know)
That being said, you can totally use Master Controller or the other light weight mods with KW. It gets complicated once you use the anti error mods.
MC, Relativity, or Retuner are just peachy, which is understandable, if you understand how those mods work.
If you don't, well, just don't use any then, no?
I am probably running 5 or 6 NRAAS mods in parallel without any issue. You just need to know which ones you can run. Which is why we have a community, so we can share those things. Asa?
The ones catching script and behaviour modification obviously don't go hand in hand with KW, albeit you can actually make them work. No matter what NRAAS says. It just means you have to dig into the code and make modifications.
Is it worth it? Absolutely not. The game can run just fine without ErrorTrap or Overwatch.
If I were to make a list of overrated mods, those would be on the top two. Unless you are constantly playing in Bridgeport, you do not need them. It's the only world they actually do something useful in out of the box. If you are like me and play Midnight Hollow as standard, however, their usefulness soon gets outshined and flagged as "Not worth the hassle". On that map there really is no need to catch cars, running stereos, or stuck sims whatsoever. It doesn't have the 200+ Sim population of regular and service Sims that Bridgeport has.

Okay, but to say :

is unfair, and gives the impression that there is something inherently wrong with those mods. Whereas there is just something wrong with the way you were using them. Nraas has always been transparent about which mod combinations they support. It's fine for you to do what you want with your game and reverse engineer mods to understand their compatibility with other mods, but it's not right to give other players the impression that something is wrong with using these mods, and that people are lazy to use them. If you have genuine issues with NRaas mods, you can convey them to the Nraas team when the site is back up.

See my last comment for the experienced usefulness of ErrorTrap and Overwatch.
I am not using either and my game is running just fine, while everyone treats those two mods as the End-All.
And, as mentioned before, I am actually running S3 on a dedicated Win 7 machine with 8 Gigs of RAM.
Also, you ignored the fact that the guy I responded to is also using KW
Something you ofc cannot know, unless you are also on LL, but I explicitly mentioned that in my last post.

You really want to debate this? I just woke up and am full of energy.
Just do not assume things about how I think. It is the worst mistake you can make and you will never get it right. I am autistic with ADHD, my man. Your assumptions will NEVER be right.
I pluck apart code for a living and I am impartial about it, if it doesn't cause any harm. (It is already painful enough to deal with legacy code as it is.)

I'm not concerned with any of this, my concern was with your remark that I quoted in post #21, and I explained my reasons there.

I am pretty sure, if you look up any of my past posts, I am the first one to say that KW and NRAAS do not get along very well.
You need to know the limits and what each mod does.
If you don't, maybe you shouldn't be using mods at all.
You will probably have a higher chance when looking for me on Loverslab under the name Aouregan. I am recoding parts of the KW system. Don't tell me what a mod can or cannot do. I program those for fun. Quite literally.
I can make any NRAAS mod bend to my needs, if I want it to. And that is not an exaggeration.
Why have I not spent any time on making NRAAS and KW compatible?
It was never needed. ET and OW do not provide anything I cannot do manually myself, when it is needed. It is that simple.
I stick to my initial point that it is a lazy people's mod.
If you half way know what you are doing in your game, these mods have no right to exist. They are mods designed to assist you in wiping your butt.

My shade throwing is strong today, but I stick to anything I said in any thread.