alright so i just want to start off by saying is that i've been hosting for a while now, and i never encountered such a issue like this whenever i hosted (i tried researching the problem, but i couldn't find a solution)
SO HERE WE GO:
one of my friends tried to join my Gladiator server, and apparently while we were both on a discord call, she said she was stuck on downloading file manifest, and since i never encountered this like i said before in the start, i was surprised it was the first time it happened to me, since the only other issue that i had hosting was runtime errors (which got fixed quickly, thanks to Zeblote's fix)
if so, does anyone know a solution to fix file manifest being stuck