[Mobius]

You may or may not know this already, but Filefront is going out of business. I'm posting this here because I can give for sure that plenties of modders whose files are hosted on Filefront should be warned.

I'm more concerned about the FreeSpace Campaign Restoration Project, which relies on Filefront completely. If you have any good options for the FSCRP, let me know ASAP.

[chief1983]

Any recommendations for stuff I should pull down before it goes away?  That's pretty sad really.

[Mobius]

People should download as many files as they can to have backups. Although I'm pretty sure most of the valuable files are DLable from FSMods now, several other files risk to get lost.

[dragonsniper]

That really sucks.
Is it true that they'll be going out of business March 30th?

[ShadowGorrath]

Wait. I don't know this. Why? How? When? Gimme some info.

[FUBAR-BDHR]

I would say ModDB for an alternative but they use FileFront as one of their mirrors. 

Download.com works but there is that waiting period before the files are posted and any time there is an update. 

[dragonsniper]

Wait. I don't know this. Why? How? When? Gimme some info.

They're going out (according to Wikipedia) March 30th. Here's the link that has their farewells. http://farewell.filefront.com/

[Droid803]

What will happen to the File Network sites then? I haven't seen any of that news posted there?

[chief1983]

Are you talking about File Planet and Co.?  That's not related.  I don't know of FileFront having many affiliates.

[Titan]

WAIIIIIT... damn, that site had some of the best modding communities. 

Mobius, I don't see any reason why FSmods won't work.

[dragonsniper]

I guess I'll be doing some serious downloading from them tomorrow.

[Droid803]

I mean the stuff like empireatwar.filefront.com and the other sites.

[Dr. Nick]

We can't post updates on any of the network sites. Ziff Davis has locked down the software we use to post files, pictures, and news on the network sites.

The network sites are going to be shut down.

[On_Your_Six]

I just heard about this very recently, the poor folks over at jk3files.com are scrambling to get a site and hosting together, they have a hell of a job though.   Their forums are already down, I think they'll be starting completely from scratch where that's concerned.

Seems to have come out of nowhere, anyone got an actual scoop?

[dragonsniper]

I've done a lot of looking around and all that I can find is that it will

indefinitely suspend site operations on March 30, 2009 due to current economic conditions.

Something that may have to do with it is Ziff Davis Media has announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on March 5, 2008. They lost around $188 million in 05, and have sold most of their "properties" (these include 1up.com, gametab, gamevideo's and mycheats.com) They have also discontinued over 15 magazines and websites. Here's the link for the Ziff Davis info. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziff_Davis I couldn't see anything on their website that sheds any light on what's going on.

IMO, they ran out of money and are now trying to sell everything they have to save their necks. Sorry if this doesn't answer your questions, but this is all I could find.

[Aurora Paradox]

Time to give the DSL line a workout I guess.  Couldn't hurt to grab a backup of anything Freespace related.

EDIT: Doesn't look like there's much on there unless I'm looking in the wrong spot.

[dragonsniper]

Just a reminder that lots of main Freespace stuff is on FreeSpace mods (almost everyone knows though. ) All I could find on Filefront was the demo's for FS1, FS2, Descent etc. I always used FSmods instead.    

[Aurora Paradox]

I always used FSmods instead.    

Same here.

[Topgun]

*gasp*!
LGM has 9999 posts!


anyway, just use fsmods.

[asyikarea51]

Damn, and here I relied on FileFront for some hard-to-find files not including FS stuff.

*creates folder to pull all his uploaded files out*