Is FileFront beeing tucked in with a shovel?

[Grobut]

Read'em and weep gentlepersons, and you! yes you.. : http://farewell.filefront.com/

This clouse to April 1'st, i really hope it's just preperation for some big April fools joke bonanza, but usually thease are carried out on the actual 1'st of April, not several days in advance with a deadline of March 30'th, so i guess we can't count on that.


Please just be a horrible and tasteless joke, i really don't want to start dealing with FilePlanet again.. *shudders*

 

[Ralfst3r]

Would be a shame. I used that site pretty often in the past.

 

[fiftyone]

I kufcing hope not...

 

[fiftyone]

Would be a shame. I used that site pretty often in the past.

So what do you use in the present ?

 

[=GG= Mr Moe]

If true, it is a real shame...

 

[fiftyone]

This is proof of nothing but...

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=356443

 

[Grobut]

Aye, everything points to this beeing no joke, so if you have anything uploaded there for safe keeping, you'd better retrive it ASAP, same goes for any FF exclusive mods and files, you may want to grab them now whilst you still can.

This blows dead Yak, and i will certainly miss this site

 

[Uurastaja]

I hardly use it, so no biggie for me.

 

[DraKon2k]

Filefront were good guys, few years ago I always downloaded from them. And unlike FilePlanet they don't actually charge you money for downloading or visiting certain pages

 

[Zips]

It's true:
http://www.ziffdavis.com/press/releases/080305.0.html

 

[smokeythebear]

Noooooooo!

This really sucks, filefront was all I used for hosting.

I used the HL2 portal a lot too for maps/models...

 

[Shadrach]

Damn thats sad.... they were one of the few who had *decent* speeds, little to no wait time and no spammy advertising...

Maybe thats why they had to go though, no revenue for being nice guys I guess... amd times being what they are...

 

[PNV]

Damn, I go to Filefront for everything.

 

[SheepDip]

Aye and me, always preferred it to most other filesites.

Real shame.

 

[PNV]

Well hopefully it's just a pre-April Fools joke, but I suppose that all good sites must eventually come to an end. I used to primarily use 3Dgamers.com, as it hosted a ton of downloads and focused only on PC games. That was, until it was bought by IGN, and now it doesn't even exist anymore.

 

[fiftyone]

Downloading files is not the problem.
What alternative is there for storing/uploading?

The truth is that it was to good to be true...
Shame...

 

[smokeythebear]

I guess MODDB is the next best site to use, I hope it sticks around.

 

[Murphy]

ModDB was a partner of filefront too.
The ModDB download mirrors are members only and their free mirrors were mostly on FileFront.

Why can't the US Airforce bail them out instead of making mediocre games available for free play (Area 51? Not bad, but come on)? The US Airforce is sponsoring ModDB, too. I read a while ago that FileFront is a profitable site so I guess it's put down not because it costs but because putting it down gets them a bit of a money boost. If this is true, the Airforce could buy FileFront, as they have the money available, and just wait until that profit gets them their money back.

I heard the army shouldn't just fight wars but also help out in a crisis. Now, here's there chance, lol.

 

[smokeythebear]

ModDB was a partner of filefront too.
The ModDB download mirrors are members only and their free mirrors were mostly on FileFront.

Damn your right.

Also I doubt the AF is going to be buying whole sites, doesn't make much sense.

I'll probably get a membership to fileplanet lol.

 

[Grobut]

Downloading files is not the problem.
What alternative is there for storing/uploading?

Indeed, where does the smalltime modder like me go to upload my work now? i don't make the huge ambitious projects that belong on ModDB, FileFront was an ideal place to store and share my little projects.

And what will happen to all the modding communities that had a home on FileFront? like the STALKER community, where will they go now?

We are losing more than a download mirror here, we are also losing what was a hub and home for many modding communities, and a lot of usefull modding information that was stored on their forums, which where practically a Wiki for modders to go look up technical information and get help for their projects