FileFront Closing?

Gorgutz · **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:38 pm

NoFatties wrote:

Gorgutz wrote:

But it's supported by many communities too... and its quite a coincidence they just have to shut everything down on April 1st?

Hopefully this will be a short-term action and Filefront will be up and running again.

:/.....

OCAdam · **Posted:** Mon Mar 30, 2009 8:51 pm

Maybe March's end is also the end of the fiscal year for who ever owns FF? They might have seen FF as something that wasn't doing anything but losing money, so they decided to destroy it so it didn't even appear on the next year's fiscal charts, thus making that year look better, or so they'd hope.

Treadhead · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:34 pm

Site's still up. All files and news GONE.

Edit: Evidence that it's a fake-out, the files can all still be accessed by clicking on a Featured File, then on files related to it. Downloads function just fine for me.

raziel · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:44 pm

We will soon know, but that does smell odd (referring to Treadhead's reply).

Raziel

P.S I miss-read the date yesterday and got my hopes up today

Sgt. Kelly · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:56 pm

http://stalker.filefront.com/file/Sgt_Kellys_Mod;79316

raziel · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2009 1:52 pm

Just noticed it says
"We are suspending FileFront site operations indefinitely on March 30. Please see the following link for more information:"

Either they are late or it was a hoax...

Raziel

P.S I'm getting tired of this...

Bjossi · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:49 pm

I'm no scientist, but I'm pretty sure April fools is in April.

Raziel wrote:

P.S I'm getting tired of this...

Well, then simply stop writing P.S. comments.

Gorgutz · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2009 4:00 pm

Treadhead wrote:

Site's still up. All files and news GONE.

Edit: Evidence that it's a fake-out, the files can all still be accessed by clicking on a Featured File, then on files related to it. Downloads function just fine for me.

Just like I said... it's a fake

xp

we orks do think!

.....sometimes.......

Eat Uranium · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:33 pm

Well, Its now very early morning on April 1st where I am, and www.filefront.com is now no longer available. The end of an era.

Industry · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2009 5:58 pm

well, i,m not getting filefront here anymore.

i guess it really is dead. :((

Strelet12 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:00 pm

Bjossi wrote:

I'm no scientist, but I'm pretty sure April fools is in April.

Obviously,it is in April. Hence the name April fools.

Sgt. Kelly wrote:

http://stalker.filefront.com/file/Sgt_Kellys_Mod;79316

Gee Kelly,when did you say that you also make your own weapons on STALKER?

Bjossi · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2009 6:58 pm

Strelet12 wrote:

Obviously,it is in April. Hence the name April fools.

Indeed, yet some people here seem to think 30th March is in April.

Glosmostinex · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:01 pm

It isn't?

Gorgutz · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:10 pm

Eat Uranium wrote:

Well, Its now very early morning on April 1st where I am, and www.filefront.com is now no longer available. The end of an era.

FF looks available... but it's on maintenance

KylinRage · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:14 pm

How odd... Everything is functional except for the "Most Popular Videos" section.

Site still accessible over here...

Bjossi · **Posted:** Tue Mar 31, 2009 9:34 pm

They talked about suspending site operations, that doesn't necessarily mean the site will be down I think. We'll see what happens in the next few days.

Tyster · **Posted:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:08 am

Bjossi wrote:

Indeed, yet some people here seem to think 30th March is in April.

March 30 is in April. April fools day! HAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.......................................... I'll shut-up, now.

Kaboodles · **Posted:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:36 am

Hmm. All my files are still up. Looks like I backed up all my old versions for no reason. Better safe than sorry, though.

Bjossi · **Posted:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:29 am

I wouldn't sweat it, most people learn the back-up routine the hard way.

Sgt. Kelly · **Posted:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:30 am

Can you actually download them?

I couldn't access my fiiles yesterday.

Tyster · **Posted:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:41 am

Is it just me, or did Filefront get a face-lift?

raziel · **Posted:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:39 am

Tyster wrote:

Is it just me, or did Filefront get a face-lift?

I don't care how Fugle it is, as long as it works

Raziel

P.S I'm still looking for any alternatives; just in case (I will post any links if I find any)

Strelet12 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 3:07 pm

Well,some of the not-so-old files have been deleted.

Like Smod Remastered.

Bjossi · **Posted:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 5:33 pm

Looks like we'll soon get an explanation on what is going on over at FF: http://forums.filefront.com/general-dis ... ments.html

WARNING: Being exposed to the FF forums for too long may cause injury to eyes.

Gorgutz · **Posted:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 8:30 pm

The downtime won't be forever as they said.... phew, I was about to poop my pants if FF closed.

Sgt. Kelly · **Posted:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 10:44 pm

Woo! FileFront has pulled through!

http://welcome.filefront.com/

Quote:

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!

It was not an April Fools joke and it's not closed, thank god.

Industry · **Posted:** Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:37 pm

what,ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â½ ReallyÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â½ i dont know what to say but:

BlackEagle · **Posted:** Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:09 am

I think is all a grand coincedence.. But we will never know.. MUHAHAHAHAH!!

Tyster · **Posted:** Thu Apr 02, 2009 5:25 am

Bjossi wrote:

WARNING: Being exposed to the FF forums for too long may cause injury to eyes.

OW! My eyes... the pain... make it stop. No, seriously. I thought my avatar might be bordering annoying, but I could not read a thing until I copied the text over to Open Office. It really makes me appreciate Runestorm's avatar size limitation.

Eat Uranium · **Posted:** Thu Apr 02, 2009 6:18 am

The king is dead, long live the king!

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