Cooldown Times and Captchas

In response to our recent service disruption, we've added cooldown times to user uploads.

We are starting very conservative by making you wait 10 minutes between uploads. This is NOT to make you sad! It's so our service stays up.

We've also implemented Captchas on upload. We're trying to make these as non invasive as possible, and many times they will automatically allow an upload without issue.

Why? A malicious user used a script to upload many terabytes of data to SIMMER servers. We can't let that happen again, so we've implemented some cooldown periods between uploads.

Next week (by ~April 17, 2025), if there is no abusive behavior, we will tweak the the thresholds to make them lower, because we know it can be annoying.

Also: Games with more a large number of files will be rejected. If you run into this, you can email us at support@simmer.io and we can adjust the limit for your account if you tell us your use case.