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VorcePA
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States1102 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-04-02 08:24:31
March 25 2009 20:23 GMT
#1
Thread post by FF admin

Farewell page on Filefront

Really, really sucks. I love using filefront. It was easily the best site for downloading game files/videos. Easy-to-use interface, search features, and high download speeds.



edit: UPDATE FileFront lives on!
Shitposting
MamiyaOtaru
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States1687 Posts
March 25 2009 20:26 GMT
#2
this does suck. It was the best site for downloading UT3 maps. Straight forward and easy. But I can't see that much money in providing a free bandwidth sink. Seems to happen to all sites like this eventually, just like all those old free online storage sites I can't even remember the name of anymore
Raithed
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
China7078 Posts
March 25 2009 20:30 GMT
#3
oh shit, my math prof uses that site to give us pdf's and shit like that. this is gonna suck.
CharlieMurphy
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
United States22895 Posts
March 25 2009 20:39 GMT
#4
On March 26 2009 05:30 Raithed wrote:
oh shit, my math prof uses that site to give us pdf's and shit like that. this is gonna suck.

Find him a replacement site asap and earn extra credit! I suggest flyupload.com
..and then I would, ya know, check em'. (Aka SpoR)
LosingID8
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
CA10831 Posts
March 25 2009 20:40 GMT
#5
On March 26 2009 05:30 Raithed wrote:
oh shit, my math prof uses that site to give us pdf's and shit like that. this is gonna suck.

why doesn't your university just use a site like blackboard
ModeratorResident K-POP Elitist
~_~
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada239 Posts
March 25 2009 20:53 GMT
#6
On March 26 2009 05:26 MamiyaOtaru wrote:
this does suck. It was the best site for downloading UT3 maps. Straight forward and easy. But I can't see that much money in providing a free bandwidth sink. Seems to happen to all sites like this eventually, just like all those old free online storage sites I can't even remember the name of anymore


wait a sec..

people play ut3?
Xenixx
Profile Joined June 2008
United States530 Posts
March 25 2009 21:21 GMT
#7
well just don't migrate over to fileplanet. i hate fileplanet but i guess im glad i didnt go with filefront either, fileshack next?
EscPlan9
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States2777 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-25 21:27:01
March 25 2009 21:26 GMT
#8
lol seriously... I played UT3 for a few hours, then just was like... well.. this sucks!

I love UT2K4 still though. My favorite multi-player FPS game of all time. The matches are so intense with the amount of dodging and aiming while moving around that goes on! Man... I haven't watched some of the high-level play in that game in a long time...
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Scooter
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States747 Posts
March 25 2009 21:36 GMT
#9
rofl at the UT3 derail.

Gonna miss filefront though, so much more legit and convenient than rapidshare for downloaders.
My unblocks gets yo curleh mustache wet のωの
Phyre
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States1288 Posts
March 25 2009 21:42 GMT
#10
:/ I liked filefront the most for getting patches and stuff, was always a good reliable place to go looking for files. Most of Stylish's FPVods are still on Filefront as well. I guess it's time to transfer them over to Youtube.
"Oh no, I got you with your pants... on your face... That's not how you wear pants." - Nintu, catching 1 hatch lurks.
arcticStorm
Profile Joined January 2009
United States295 Posts
March 25 2009 21:43 GMT
#11
On March 26 2009 05:40 LosingID8 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 26 2009 05:30 Raithed wrote:
oh shit, my math prof uses that site to give us pdf's and shit like that. this is gonna suck.

why doesn't your university just use a site like blackboard


From what I know, blackboard is pretty expensive, that's why our school is switching from it to the open source, free, Moodle, although it really can't compare with blackboard in terms of organization and usefulness.
This statement is a lie.
motbob
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States12546 Posts
March 25 2009 22:14 GMT
#12
On March 26 2009 06:43 arcticStorm wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 26 2009 05:40 LosingID8 wrote:
On March 26 2009 05:30 Raithed wrote:
oh shit, my math prof uses that site to give us pdf's and shit like that. this is gonna suck.

why doesn't your university just use a site like blackboard


From what I know, blackboard is pretty expensive, that's why our school is switching from it to the open source, free, Moodle, although it really can't compare with blackboard in terms of organization and usefulness.

??? Moodle actually works better than Blackboard for me... but then again, we don't use it for much besides forums and posting files.
ModeratorGood content always wins.
chobopeon
Profile Blog Joined May 2003
United States7342 Posts
March 25 2009 22:16 GMT
#13
i just downloaded the gateway editor from here earlier today when i saw this. sucks.
:O
Nytefish
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United Kingdom4282 Posts
March 25 2009 22:31 GMT
#14
I remember there was a thread about "has the economic downturn affected you". Now I can definitely say yes.
No I'm never serious.
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17768 Posts
March 25 2009 22:34 GMT
#15
On March 26 2009 06:43 arcticStorm wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 26 2009 05:40 LosingID8 wrote:
On March 26 2009 05:30 Raithed wrote:
oh shit, my math prof uses that site to give us pdf's and shit like that. this is gonna suck.

why doesn't your university just use a site like blackboard


From what I know, blackboard is pretty expensive, that's why our school is switching from it to the open source, free, Moodle, although it really can't compare with blackboard in terms of organization and usefulness.


I just don't get it why your university isn't using it's own servers for such things... My university isn't the biggest around and every faculty has it's own server + it's distributing bandwidth over the whole city for some companies and stuff...
Wouldn't storing .pdf files and other material on your own machine be better/cheaper for the university?
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
FieryBalrog
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States1381 Posts
March 25 2009 22:36 GMT
#16
How did these sites ever make money anyway, even with the ads

"Hm, we'll devote millions of dollars so all of you can use our bandwith!"
I will eat you alive
MamiyaOtaru
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States1687 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-25 22:37:34
March 25 2009 22:37 GMT
#17
On March 26 2009 05:53 ~_~ wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 26 2009 05:26 MamiyaOtaru wrote:
this does suck. It was the best site for downloading UT3 maps. Straight forward and easy. But I can't see that much money in providing a free bandwidth sink. Seems to happen to all sites like this eventually, just like all those old free online storage sites I can't even remember the name of anymore


wait a sec..

people play ut3?

A little bit more now that the Titan Pack is out and Steam did the free weekends. But in general, no. I don't either. I just like to look at original maps and see what people have created. I play UT99 a lot, but not really UT3
Kerotan
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
England2111 Posts
March 25 2009 22:37 GMT
#18
This is almost as bad as Divx stage 6 going under.


And that was pretty terrible.
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Physician *
Profile Blog Joined January 2004
United States4146 Posts
March 25 2009 22:38 GMT
#19
I use megaupload. Who knows where they have their computers (China).
Shadiest bunch I've ever seen!
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Schnake
Profile Joined September 2003
Germany2819 Posts
March 25 2009 22:38 GMT
#20
Oh no, all the StylishVODs! Gotta DL em all before the service takes it last breath.
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Tundie
Profile Joined September 2008
Canada14 Posts
March 25 2009 23:09 GMT
#21
April fools!
arcticStorm
Profile Joined January 2009
United States295 Posts
March 25 2009 23:21 GMT
#22
On March 26 2009 07:34 Manit0u wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 26 2009 06:43 arcticStorm wrote:
On March 26 2009 05:40 LosingID8 wrote:
On March 26 2009 05:30 Raithed wrote:
oh shit, my math prof uses that site to give us pdf's and shit like that. this is gonna suck.

why doesn't your university just use a site like blackboard


From what I know, blackboard is pretty expensive, that's why our school is switching from it to the open source, free, Moodle, although it really can't compare with blackboard in terms of organization and usefulness.


I just don't get it why your university isn't using it's own servers for such things... My university isn't the biggest around and every faculty has it's own server + it's distributing bandwidth over the whole city for some companies and stuff...
Wouldn't storing .pdf files and other material on your own machine be better/cheaper for the university?


Hmm bandwidth does not necessarily mean a large memory capacity. Anyways, they probably think its more safe to store it on a commercial server since they usually have those backed up. Just wondering, do they store student records on there? That does not seem responsible at all.
This statement is a lie.
Folca
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
2235 Posts
March 25 2009 23:34 GMT
#23
They're trying to make a back-up site now
http://www.jksource.net/
Jedi Knights Source, just tell the word to everyone, and they'll have as good of a site as FileFront, actually no.
Dea : one time when he was playing vs the comps he asked me "how do I make that flying unit that makes the other stuff invisible" and I reply "ur playing terran zomg"
Loanshark
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
China3094 Posts
March 25 2009 23:40 GMT
#24
shittttttttttttttt!!!!!
No dough, no go. And no mercy.
Burned Toast *
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
Canada2040 Posts
March 26 2009 00:01 GMT
#25
Ut3 was the biggest letdown of my life.

I still miss the speedy gameplay of the 2k3 even if I'm still playin' 2k4...
TvT matchup is sometimes worse than jailtime
rredtooth
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
5464 Posts
March 26 2009 00:03 GMT
#26
for some reason I'm questioning this...
the fact that its closing down on march 30th is highly suspicious.
elaborate april fool's prank?
then again, maybe i'm just being stupid.
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DeathSpank
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States1029 Posts
March 26 2009 01:01 GMT
#27
the witch i dead the witch is dead! I seriously hate mega dl sites like that.
yes.
Kentor *
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States5784 Posts
March 26 2009 01:09 GMT
#28
damn this sucks.... gonna download my stuff
writer22816
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States5775 Posts
March 26 2009 01:48 GMT
#29
Personally I could never get filefront to let me download anything, so good riddance filefront
8/4/12 never forget, never forgive.
Raithed
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
China7078 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-03-26 01:58:37
March 26 2009 01:53 GMT
#30
On March 26 2009 05:40 LosingID8 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 26 2009 05:30 Raithed wrote:
oh shit, my math prof uses that site to give us pdf's and shit like that. this is gonna suck.

why doesn't your university just use a site like blackboard

what. ive never heard of this, plus, as someone said; its expensive.
Durak
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Canada3685 Posts
March 26 2009 02:05 GMT
#31
On March 26 2009 09:03 redtooth wrote:
for some reason I'm questioning this...
the fact that its closing down on march 30th is highly suspicious.
elaborate april fool's prank?
then again, maybe i'm just being stupid.


You can't announce something ahead of time for april fools. In my opinion, that's against the rules. Either that or you're just a liar.
Sprite
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States1015 Posts
March 26 2009 02:11 GMT
#32
i cant believe this i love filefront!
Firebathero is still the best!
Manit0u
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
Poland17768 Posts
March 26 2009 10:51 GMT
#33
On March 26 2009 08:21 arcticStorm wrote:
Show nested quote +
On March 26 2009 07:34 Manit0u wrote:
I just don't get it why your university isn't using it's own servers for such things... My university isn't the biggest around and every faculty has it's own server + it's distributing bandwidth over the whole city for some companies and stuff...
Wouldn't storing .pdf files and other material on your own machine be better/cheaper for the university?


Hmm bandwidth does not necessarily mean a large memory capacity. Anyways, they probably think its more safe to store it on a commercial server since they usually have those backed up. Just wondering, do they store student records on there? That does not seem responsible at all.


Memory capacity? I don't believe that should be a problem. Every single student here can have his own account on the server and they're assigned at least 50MB quota on this accounts (I have 100MB but that's because one of the deans - who is also the server administrator for the server assigned to my faculty is a good old friend of mine and I really needed this increase).
If you have a server nowadays, you usually get quite enough capacity and giving away at least 100GB/faculty just for stuff that can be shared with students (like a folder where every teacher can upload stuff or something) is no big deal.

Also a nice idea is what I have at my studies - each year creates it's own gmail account where teachers send files, exam results, notifications etc. and each student has login/password (it can cause some problems, if for example someone has set their mail client to not leave a copy of the mail on the server, but usually it's not hard to solve those).
Time is precious. Waste it wisely.
TimeShifter
Profile Joined October 2008
Singapore235 Posts
March 27 2009 03:53 GMT
#34
On March 26 2009 09:03 redtooth wrote:
for some reason I'm questioning this...
the fact that its closing down on march 30th is highly suspicious.
elaborate april fool's prank?
then again, maybe i'm just being stupid.

it's a little suspicious but it will be really sad for a lot of people if it really closes down D:


strawberries~
Kinky
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States4126 Posts
March 27 2009 04:22 GMT
#35
NOOOOOOOO, STYLISH T_T
Sanity.
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States704 Posts
March 27 2009 04:24 GMT
#36
wow this sucks. they always had such good uploading.
TimeShifter
Profile Joined October 2008
Singapore235 Posts
March 31 2009 13:52 GMT
#37
eeek...its already 31st of March and i just downloaded the portal song from filefront

strawberries~
VorcePA
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States1102 Posts
April 02 2009 08:23 GMT
#38
http://welcome.filefront.com/

FileFront lives on. Not an april fool's joke. Apparently the company that owned it sold it back to the original owners, and coincidentally the deal was closed today (April 1st).

Huzzah!
Shitposting
Racenilatr
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States2756 Posts
April 02 2009 10:34 GMT
#39
Filefront was the best <3 I remember Stage6 shutting down That was also an awsome site
Vex
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Ireland454 Posts
April 02 2009 12:46 GMT
#40
UT3 fun game..
shame bout filefront moddb still owns it tho
"Bonjwa" is the most retarded word ever. Wtf does it even sound like.
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