so my question is, whats the best alternative to filefront in the future. i mean the topic upload big files.

I'd say Peer2Peer

p2p files are way too ephemeral

this does actually suck.

APRIL FOOLS!

...right...guys?

I though the same thing. APRIL fool ?? or not ?

no joke, news reported on many sites since march 28th.

Aww :(

That sucks.

BAILOUT FOR FILE HOSTING!

and since it's not 1st april.. why would you even consider a joke?

So sad to here:( I really hope its a April joke.

Tho the site still lifes^^

But you cannot make any downloads any more since yesterday ;-)

Okay so, Filefront was arguably one of the best hosting sites for everything gaming.

Fileplanet still is awful, what do we have left that isn't related specifically to a game?

wipido and wegame for videos, other random filesharing sites for general files.

shitsux. stage 6 and now filefront :(

Yeah Stage6 was amazing =(

I'm getting tired of rapidshare. I really am. I'll look into those sites.

stage6!!!!

D:

www.own3d.tv the best quality on the internet so far.

yea own3d is the best in business for video hosting

rip you pos

It says filefront, not fileplanet.

and my post says rip you pos, smarty pants nah

oh man i have to say that was definitely unexpected..

I could care less, filefront was a downloading nightmare

Sure you're not thinking of FilePlanet?

He's gotta be, unless he lives in the middle of a desert, filefront was the best.

Aah shit, I always used filefront as a last resort when other mirrors were not working. Shame.

wtf is this shit bunch of russki or jewish, uh, WELL FUCK YOU WHOEVER YOU ARE

What's that?! What's the sence of writing such a stupid post, would've been better you'd have written nothing at all m8.

In Latin: Sic tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.... u know

Hi there.

don't care. I don't think I've used filefront for the last year or two. Poor speed and a rather shitty site. Was always at the bottom of my list of what mirror to download from..

:( filefront sweden must be diff than here. Here in NA, filefront was the only site I consistently dl'ed 3mbps and higher from.

Yeah I think that they don't have any good servers near Sweden. That probably explains quite a lot :D

yea same always have gotten ridiculous speeds from filefront

who cares. people actually use those shit sites?

What's wrong with it? Except for slow speeds for some locations.

Well, it's pretty sad to see filefront leave. Was around for quite a long time, and tho I didn't use it frequently it was always there for me when I needed it ;)

At least own-age it still up for the fragmovies etc :P <3

Happened to me many times, that only the filefront mirror worked. Its gonna be huge trouble for own-age as well.

who gives a shit

Oh I dunno, maybe gamers needing patches, map-packs, mods, any other sort of custom content and wanted to get it at a minimum of 1mbps.

american gamers*

filefront has always been crap over here

granted.

This probably explains why when I tried to make a new account Saturday night it would not send me a confirmation e-mail.

filefront is shutting down but fileplanet is still up?

oh cruel reality, how i loathe the...

It's the 31st, almost April 1st, and I'm still able to download off Filefront.

Early April fools? Or just lazy people?

No, they announced this about a week ago. I made a post about it.

Crazy. That filefront cocksucker network has been around forever. On the bright side, Gap has unveiled a new clothing line: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXb3dzNLebk&am...-fresh+div

filefront was only good when i was in the states, havent used it since coming back to turkey.


Guess only americans will miss it.

This is interesting... http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/99-cent-sale/

WE OFFER:
• Instant Uploads – submit your file & instantly get a url for distribution
• Lightning fast downloads – we're FilePlanet. We've got HUGE pipes!
• AAA Betas – want to play it first? You know FilePlanet will have it

Economy got you down? Your favorite file site closing?
Come to FilePlanet and check out our high quality service.

FileFront has been bought back by the original founders from Ziff Davis Media and will NOT be shutting down.

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.

Information Here: http://welcome.filefront.com/

And no, this wasn't an April Fool's joke.

thanks man!

... now im confused :0

the cause is untranspararent for us, for sure. i dont get it either in full.

whatever, they are back. they have some kind of attention now, they can have it.

Huzzah! <3

lol, maybe next time they just try to coordinate their actions a little bit... quite confusing right now^^ But nvm, good news, I am happy they're back, as already stated before: Would've been a shame to see such a reliable site drop dead.

woot!!
/goes to download any possible patch/mod/etc. while the getting's good.

wow there is hope in this world afterall :D

Not that I will be able to use it but still, sounds like fable stuff to me.


Or just people with a business plan..

:D->--<

x makes site.
site becomes popular
x sells to y for inflated sum
world goes into recession
y realises advertising doesnt pay for bandwidth anymore
y decides to close expensive site
y sells back to x, cutting losses

so next is, x realises adverts dont cover bw, and service still gets killed?

For a while there I thought you were talking about x y chromosomes.

Next probably is that x realises adverts dont cover bw, service gets limited to domestic traffic. That either works or else the service gets killed.

Hence comment #54

RAWR >:3

excellent news!

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 suspend 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) 1) The March 24th announcement about FileFront suspending its operation was NOT an early April Fool's joke.

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 suspend 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!