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LAN Party Forums => General Discussion => Started by: Mr.Tibbs on March 25, 2009, 07:47:40 PM

Title: Filefront
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on March 25, 2009, 07:47:40 PM: The website will be closed indefinitely on March 30 2009. So get whatever downloads you want before it closes. And try to find some alternatives. Such as this: www.fangaming.com (http://)
Title: Re: Filefront
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on March 25, 2009, 07:53:02 PM: Thought I would throw in the letter to the people from the Filefront site:

Dear FileFront User:

We regret to inform you that due to the current economic conditions we are forced to indefinitely suspend the FileFront site operations on March 30, 2009. If you have uploaded files, images or posted blogs, or if you would like to download some of your favorite files, please take this opportunity to download them before March 30th when the site will be suspended.

We would like to give a warm thank you to all of you who have been part of the FileFront communities we have built together. Your support has had a meaningful impact for all of us here at FileFront. Again, we want to give you a sincere “thank you” for your support over the years and wish you all the very best.

Keep gaming alive,

FileFront Management and Team.

Contact_us@filefront.com
Title: Re: Filefront
Post by: The Nstuff on March 25, 2009, 08:32:36 PM: i feel like a friend just died. I love(d) filefront. Free FFAASSTT downloads with no wait queues. Sad sad day for the interwebs.

RIP filefront. :(
Title: Re: Filefront
Post by: Agent4054 on March 25, 2009, 09:07:26 PM: Very dark day.
Title: Re: Filefront
Post by: h4gg4rd on March 26, 2009, 07:33:24 AM: yeah I remember the great download speeds from there compared to the Crapty fileplanet... which should be the one shutting down.
Title: Re: Filefront
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on March 30, 2009, 02:03:38 PM: Well it is the 30th and it is still up. They didn't give a time of when exactly they were going to yank it down. So if you still want some downloads better do it now. As of 3:04pm (EST) the site is still up and running.
Title: Re: Filefront
Post by: DoubleG on March 30, 2009, 04:52:07 PM: 5:51p EST -- Still live. (Even had an ad before it!)
Title: Re: Filefront
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on March 30, 2009, 07:16:13 PM: It is still up as of 8:15pm EST. I guess midnight is when they are shutting it down.
Title: Re: Filefront
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on March 31, 2009, 07:32:15 AM: It is still up. I am beginning to think it is some kind of April Fools Day joke.
Title: Re: Filefront
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on April 01, 2009, 10:36:09 AM: Apparently it was a April Fools Day joke. The main guy n0e who runs the FF forums. Set the forums back up StrategyInformer, and they are still up and running. As for the rest of the site, it is still up and running and you probably can keep on downloading.
Title: Re: Filefront
Post by: The Nstuff on April 01, 2009, 05:43:34 PM: Found this post: http://forums.filefront.com/announcements-698/announcements.html (http://forums.filefront.com/announcements-698/announcements.html)
Title: Re: Filefront
Post by: The Shoctor on April 01, 2009, 06:04:22 PM: "September 3rd, 2008 until October 4th, 2010"
LOL
Title: Re: Filefront
Post by: The Nstuff on April 01, 2009, 06:38:26 PM: ya, something is a tad messed up with their forums. I saw on a post somewhere else that they are working on upgrading the software or migrating to a new system. Not a whole lot of concret info though.
Title: Re: Filefront
Post by: Agent4054 on April 02, 2009, 03:22:49 PM: Here is an update to the FileFront fiasco (yay for alliteration!):

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!
Title: Re: Filefront
Post by: Mr.Tibbs on April 02, 2009, 03:43:02 PM: GOD BE PRAISED

But in all seriousness, I am so happy that they have bought it back. Wonder how much they had to pay?
Title: Re: Filefront
Post by: sully! on April 02, 2009, 04:07:41 PM: Probably less than what ZD paid for it in the first place.
Title: Re: Filefront
Post by: .:F3ar0n:. on April 03, 2009, 05:53:48 PM: w00t! Glad to see they're going to stick around. I'm sure it was a good bit. Wonder if it would be 6 figures high?