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BlackIntel => General discussion => Topic started by: Thomas45 on March 25, 2009, 07:06:36 pm

Title: Filefront shutting down
Post by: Thomas45 on March 25, 2009, 07:06:36 pm: Not sure if anyone noticed or cared but FIlefront is shutting down due to economic issues

http://farewell.filefront.com/
Seems like this recession is now affecting the internet

Im gonna miss filefront one of the few sites that offered full speed downloads without paying.
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: LeeumDee on March 25, 2009, 07:34:38 pm: I was suspicious as their upload section had been down for quite some time.
http://mediafire.com is a great alternative
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: Gwynzer on March 25, 2009, 10:31:57 pm: I also have a media fire account for anyone who wants to upload >100 mb files.

sad news for the modding community. Thank goodness we still have ModDB.
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: LeeumDee on March 25, 2009, 11:02:34 pm: Of course for simply hosting your own things, web hosting doesn't cost too much at all.
my hosting is a little over £5 a month now ( it was more) and i do host a few websites on that.
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on March 25, 2009, 11:26:24 pm: Quote from: LeeumDee on March 25, 2009, 11:02:34 pm
Of course for simply hosting your own things, web hosting doesn't cost too much at all.
my hosting is a little over £5 a month now ( it was more) and i do host a few websites on that.
Hmm, that reminds me, we (BI) should look at giving people that donate (some) webspace
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: Blind3001 on March 26, 2009, 10:59:27 am: Anyone else think we are too close to the 1st of april to believe this?
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on March 26, 2009, 11:31:35 am: Quote from: Blind3001 on March 26, 2009, 10:59:27 am
Anyone else think we are too close to the 1st of april to believe this?
Quite possible, because thye didn't put it as a headline on the mainpage. If you really want to quit, you would most likely make it VERY clear to your users. Also, if it is because of economical reasons, you would first appeal for donations from your users.
That or switch to rapidshare practices.
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: Trace on March 26, 2009, 11:38:36 am: Quote from: Blind3001 on March 26, 2009, 10:59:27 am
Anyone else think we are too close to the 1st of april to believe this?
30th of march = closure
1st of april is the day on which everyone notices: hey its still running :P
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: LeeumDee on March 26, 2009, 11:42:01 am: thing is... their upload feature IS down.

they'll lose members with that anyway :(
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: Thomas45 on March 26, 2009, 07:10:41 pm: I have Sad news for everyone here including myself

Well, as some of you already know and some that think it's still a joke, FileFront will be closing its doors for good on March 30th. All of the paid staff has been laid off (including myself) and all volunteers have been let go. Unfortunately, it seems to have been decided that the forums and network should be the first to go and before I was even able to create some announcement to inform my beloved community and volunteer staff of this event, they were taken offline or 'locked' so no further changes could be made to them. To call this unfortunate or frustrating is quite a bit of an understatement, not only to me, but especially to those I am currently unable to reach to inform them as to what's going on. I cannot imagine the confusion they must have about this and probably think its all some April Fool's joke. If only it were.

We found out yesterday that due to current economic conditions, Ziff Davis has made the call to suspend operations of the site at the end of March 30th. There isn't anyone at FileFront that knew this would happen. It was quite a shock to anyone that worked there. While we expected bad news (in this economy is there any other kind?) we certainly didn't expect that the site would be shut down for good. I certainly didn't expect the forums or network sites to be offline and unmanageable.

If any of you have questions just contact me on xfire : ugsace

P.S Congrats to Timinem for having the very last POTD lol
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: Blind3001 on April 01, 2009, 05:48:26 pm: I CALLED IT!
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: Thomas45 on April 02, 2009, 06:50:40 am: Filefront has been bought back by the old founders yay!
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: Blind3001 on April 02, 2009, 06:55:55 pm: Yay for the founders of awesome.
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: LeeumDee on April 02, 2009, 07:26:03 pm: blind was wrong :D

YAY ;D
http://welcome.filefront.com/
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: Blind3001 on April 03, 2009, 01:56:59 pm: It's still a joke... >:)
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: LeeumDee on April 03, 2009, 03:12:51 pm: blind failed? :o

EPIC FAIL!
EPIC FAIL . com!

http://epicfail.com/

FAILING! EPICLY! :O EPICLY FAILING! :O
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: Blind3001 on April 03, 2009, 03:58:50 pm: No, I didn't fail.
Only in soviet Russia can i fail.
And I never go there...

In other news, check out here (http://www.tinyurl.com/FSmod) awesome video of me and gwynzer owning in FS.<

EDIT: Dex: WOOPS, sry, wrong key :S
EDIT2: Blind: Now why would you press that?
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: Gwynzer on April 03, 2009, 05:09:11 pm: owned!
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: LeeumDee on April 03, 2009, 07:19:24 pm: tinyurl?

plus the fact you WANT people to click it

no thanks :]
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: LeeumDee on April 03, 2009, 07:25:44 pm: lol

Quote from: linknark
Start: http://www.tinyurl.com/FSmod
1) http://www.tinyurl.com/FSmod => http://tinyurl.com/redirect.php?num=FSmod
2) http://tinyurl.com/redirect.php?num=FSmod => http://www.1227.com
End: http://www.1227.com

FAIL!
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: DKDexter999 on April 03, 2009, 08:03:36 pm: Or http://preview.tinyurl.com/FSmod ...
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on April 04, 2009, 10:21:06 am: Quote from: DKDexter999 on April 03, 2009, 08:03:36 pm
Or http://preview.tinyurl.com/FSmod ...
www.1227.com sounds a bit like epicwinrar com. No i would not recommend going there.
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: Blind3001 on April 04, 2009, 01:47:21 pm: Well then, go here: http://failblog.com (http://www.tinyurl.com/gwynzer)
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: VickVenom on April 04, 2009, 02:45:28 pm: blind :P WHYYYYYYYYYYY WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on April 04, 2009, 02:48:58 pm: OK clear rule, 1 hour ban for anyone posting rickrolls.
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: Thomas45 on April 04, 2009, 03:21:06 pm: Does it count if he spams it on xfire?
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: EvilWhiteDragon on April 04, 2009, 08:41:20 pm: Quote from: Thomas45 on April 04, 2009, 03:21:06 pm
Does it count if he spams it on xfire?
Yes, you now may now ban him from xfire.
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: Slyfox on April 10, 2009, 12:01:53 am: Filefront is not shutting down. Go on the website, they explain what happened.
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: LeeumDee on April 10, 2009, 12:05:39 am: Read the whole topic ^
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: Thomas45 on April 10, 2009, 02:05:23 pm: I cant help feel that my posts keep getting deleted :o
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: Naraesa on April 12, 2009, 09:17:32 pm: how about in real life, can you be banned from real life?
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: Blind3001 on April 12, 2009, 11:35:08 pm: Yes actually, you can get death sentence in some places :P
Title: Re: Filefront shutting down
Post by: LeeumDee on April 13, 2009, 12:41:58 am: Please let it be in Belgium
PLEEEEEEEEASE let it be in Belgium :P