Since there are some unfrequent changes to the gpgnet protocol, old versions would not work with the current FAF lobby server.
Thus you will not find official support for running old versions.
In theory, if you start an older replay, all the files of that replays patch level get installed. But you cannot play online via FAF, but would have to play via LAN or some other solutions. I don't know to which extent this is currently possible.
Download the client, install it and login?
It's all described here: https://www.faforever.com/play
So you have shown us that you can't link your account a second time. We still don't know what the error with the FAF Client is.
You have a connection problem. Your request to the API timed out. Maybe firewall issue.
If you have too much money, just send it to me.
Yes, they are on a separate network drive at Getzner and everytime it loses connection (which happens a lot), our server cannot remount it for some reason.
The ICE adapter relies on ICE / Coturn servers to make connectivity working.
With the incoming DDoS attacks last year we hastily extended our self hosted Coturn servers with a 3rd party server called Xirsys. Quite expensive and not as successfull "connective" as we were hoping.
Recently Cloudflare has launched their own Calls product as a beta. As part of that we can use their TURN services. Much cheaper than Xirsys, and hopefully more stable and more connective. Today we replaced the turn services from Xirsys with the ones from Cloudflare.
If you have recently disabled the GLOBAL entry in your Client settings for preferred coturn servers, please re-enable it again and give it some time for testing.
In addition to that we will soon bring back the "Force relay" connection in the client that helped some users but had to be removed due to the cost situation with Xirsys.
No. There are alternate options, but we have to develop them first.
I never reached a rating above 1000 and I was there 3000 years ago when the original gap was still played.
To cite the famous Morpheus:
"What is the Gap? Control."
FA is ultimately complex. You can be attacked from basically all directions, even water or mountains only protect you so far. Then there are so many ways of attacking v from plain unit rush, artillery bombardment, tactical/strategical missiles, strategic bombers, experimentales
Instead of rating I reached the wisdom that some people need to dumb down the game because the complexity is too high.
People put themselves into a very restricted environment, where there are less things possible (no sneaking behind base, easier turtleing,...).
Actually the modern dual gap is actually an improvement over the original gap. Instead of one central turtling point each team has its own. There is water available. And there is a skirmish area in the center to fight about.
So yes, maybe Dual Gap doesn't help you getting better. But it makes a lot of people happy, that wouldn't play FAF at all if we forced them into a different direction. So who are we to judge?
I have some very bad news. As it turns out Cloudflare is limiting uploads to 100mb in our Pro plan. Even upgrading to Business plan would slighlty increase it to 200mb. Only enterprise customers can have 500mb uploads or more.
Unfortunately we have to hide our servers behind Cloudflare Proxies due to the DDoS issues. So for now, we cannot offer any solution to the problem. Sorry.
I can reproduce the error on the test server with the upload. But so far I can not see the cause of it.
Another thing to consider from my touchpoints with the mod team is the following:
Each case is an individual case. Especially with regards to punishment, it strongly depends on your moderation history. From first warning over last warning, from shirt ban to unlimited ban the range is huge. Many question come down to: Why do I get punished for this, but others aren't? These kind of questions lead to nowhere. The moderation will never reveal the history of a user to others and such a comparison of cases is usually pointless.
So it makes sense to discuss the rules itself if there is a greater demand, it makes very little sense to publicly discuss individual moderation actions.
It would be helpful if the author could upload the current folder zipped to a Google drive or somewhere.
Better late than never.
With our server update 10 days ago (3rd November) we moved the last piece of the FAF production server to Kubernetes. Despite having hiccups on the migration, these were actually not relevant to the migration. From now on, we do not run anything on our faf-stack anymore.
Looking back into experimental repositories, the first Kubernetes related commit appeared on the 1st December 2021 (and work actually started before that). That makes 3 years! 3 astonishing years of exploring, failing and succeeding. And while we were exploring options, the k8s world came up with other solutions too and we had to re-evaluate a lot.
Time to reconsider what is in for us (admins), for developers and of course for you (the players).
The admin benefits
Developer benefits
Player benefits
Downside and dark spots
Well unfortunately the change brought some downsides that we will need to improve on in the future:
In the end we can say, our journey has not ended. But the biggest milestone lies behind us and a bright future in front of us 
Also the problem is not the single file, but this:
That is 10 versions alone within 1 1/2 months eating 2 Gigabyte of disk space. Now if your uploads get bigger an bigger it would be 6GB or more if your file size keeps to grow like this... and we only have limited disk space available.
And your last file was just 223mb...
The maximum file size is currently 350mb. That limit was last touched 4 years ago.
Downvoting your post is an expression of opinion onto your statement inside a post. Nobody downvoted you directly. You are the first user who started with such negative votes 
The reputation system is there to avoid spam. I relaxed the rules for chat now for you, but you should try to avoid fishing for more downvotes 
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But "can't use forum" is obviuously wrong, how else did you post here then? So you should explain what is not working otherwise I can not help you.
Xirsys is our 3rd party provider for establishing connections with the ice adapter. The company does nothing else.
You don't even download anything there.
Which shitty software is classifying this as malware?