[Mobius]

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.   

True...but as I stated above, many other files that risk to get lost are on Filefront now. FSMods is pretty recent so it's not a "full" database yet.


EDIT: I read that the whole "Filefront will go down" is a joke by Filefront's admins. Is that true? That'd be incredibly pathetic. 

[Droid803]

EDIT: I read that the whole "Filefront will go down" is a joke by Filefront's admins. Is that true? That'd be incredibly pathetic. 

Source?

That would be a mean trick, making people panic and all...
Though it's all in time for April Fool's Day, which makes it plausible.
Damn I HATE April Fools...

[Rhymes]

Doesn't matter.  If this is real, we need to act accordingly, and if it's not, then we shouldn't depend on them for anything anymore.  Anybody who can make a joke like that with no problems doesn't deserve our patronage.

Only thing is, it probably is serious.  Remember, March has 31 days, not 30.  They're two days short.  They're not joking.

[Enigmatic Entity]

D/load just in case if you can afford GB downloads. Use divShare and create a group. Call yourself eg. FS1_modName_00, then cahnge the number at the end to create another account, as you only get 5GB. Let everyone see and download what is in "your" account. Have all these accounts in the group.

Just a suggestion...

[Goober5000]

Ack.  Offhand I know that the Twilight campaign, as well as all of Blaise Russel's campaigns, are on FileFront.

[Pred the Penguin]

Haven't been using Fielfront recently, really bad news though. =/

[Mobius]

Doesn't matter.  If this is real, we need to act accordingly, and if it's not, then we shouldn't depend on them for anything anymore.  Anybody who can make a joke like that with no problems doesn't deserve our patronage.

Only thing is, it probably is serious.  Remember, March has 31 days, not 30.  They're two days short.  They're not joking.

Maybe March 31st would have been too obvious. It'd be a disturbing AF and I swear I won't use Filefront anymore as protest.

[Retsof]

This sucks, where am I gonna find EAW mods now?

[BengalTiger]

mediafire.com

[dragonsniper]

I checked and filefront still seems to be up. However, if it was a prank by Ziff Davis, then I don't think many people are laughing (I'm not that's for sure  )

Here's a link to something that might explain a bit about it. http://arloria.net/ircrts/wiki/Main_Page

EDIT: Stupid me.  Should have known not to put up links up on April Fools day...

[Blue Lion]

This should be a wise time to start collecting all FS related stuff in case something does happen?

[Vrets]

I downloaded a bunch of campaigns, yesterday.

Do YOUR part for the survival of the species!

[Blue Lion]

http://welcome.filefront.com/

FileFront has been acquired by the original founders of the site and will NOT be suspended as previously announced. This is NOT an April Fool's Joke.

After learning about Ziff Davis Media's plan to shut down FileFront at the end of March, the original founders of FileFront made the decision to buy it back from Ziff Davis Media.

We're happy to announce to the gaming community that as of today, April 1st, 2009, FileFront is a completely independent company again and is no longer part of Ziff Davis Media. All previously suspended services should be active and working again. We thank Ziff Davis Media for their cooperation and willingness to keep the site and community alive.

Due to the very unfortunate timing of this event and related announcements on March 24th and April 1st (April Fool's Day), we'd like to make it perfectly clear that:

1) The March 24th announcement about FileFront shutting down was NOT an early April Fool's joke and Ziff Davis Media had every intention of shutting down FileFront by the end of March.

2) This announcement about the original founders buying back FileFront from Ziff Davis Media is also NOT an April Fool's joke.

3) We're making this announcement on April 1st because the deal was completed today and we want to bring all services back online immediately.

4) We would NEVER shut down FileFront as an April Fool's joke.

5) We are happy to be back!

FileFront has existed in one form or another (originally as FileLeech and Voodoo Extreme's downloads) since 1997. In the last 12 years, FileFront has become the gaming community's most comprehensive and trafficked library hosting millions of files for thousands of games while requiring no registration and providing uncapped download speeds. We look forward to improving FileFront and serving the gaming community for years to come.

Welcome home. Game On!

Email us, [email protected]

[Pred the Penguin]

Is it safe to say that if feels like an April Fools joke?

[chief1983]

It could be a publicity stunt created by the old and new owners to look like an April Fool's joke, but really just designed to generate publicity for ZD and FileFront.

[Mobius]

I'd say to use another site to protest.

[dragonsniper]

Hopefully it's legit.

[lostllama]

Is it safe to say that if feels like an April Fools joke?

An unintentional joke that's probably gone bad anyway, I fear.

[Droid803]

Well, either way, I'm never hosting anything on Filefront anymore, and from now on, downloads from Filefront don't work for me even if they actually do.

[Getter Robo G]

I would say use it for your trash files, and send your most important stuff on a more reliable host?

No doubt this event has hurt FF's reputation...