FileFront No More

[Deathshot]

Could have swore someone said it was.

 

[sub]

They use to be. They're not anymore.

 

[Grega]

They are hosted on gamers-desire.de

Same as ESF-world (only that site is still beeing reworked ^^)

 

[Mr.Lukyas]

Oh btw, totally off topic, but I just wanted to say I'll give rep+ to MC. He's the one who finds things out first, ALWAYS. It's like, he's watching all news sites at every moment. <3 MC

 

[KYnetiK]

Am I the only one skeptical here? Hasnt anyone else realised the date? Or suspect a common sale tactic? What a way to increase traffic, eh? If you cant run a website, what business do they think they can move on with now? Nothing smells right here.

 

[Barney]

Yea except for the fact that this wasn't announced on April 1st...

edit: Oh, also, the economy sucks, so it's not unlikely this would happen. **** it's happening to everything.

 

[Skyrider]

And everything seems to be up again.

 

[Damaera]

Everything seems to be up and running again.

On April 1st.

 

[Kaination]

I think Filefront just pulled the best April Fools joke of the entire internet.

2009

NO body suspected it, haha.

 

[Grega]

They cheated.

They posted it a day before april first was anywhere in the world.

Who posts an april fools joke on the 30th/31st of march. Its called april fools, APRIL fools. Bloody april 1st >.<

This was just a blatant lie.

 

[sub]

If this was a joke, it was an extremely lame one. You don't announce an april fools joke 7 days in advanced. You also shouldn't do april fools jokes that affect people in a negative way, I'm sure a quite a few people put work into finding a suitable file host replacement.

 

[Chakra-X]

Perhaps they sent emails out to web admins about this joke.

I fell for it D:

 

[MC]

Nobody knows what's going on.

 

[Renyori]

If this was a joke, it was an extremely lame one. You don't announce an april fools joke 7 days in advanced. You also shouldn't do april fools jokes that affect people in a negative way, I'm sure a quite a few people put work into finding a suitable file host replacement.

I agree, if this was a joke then its a pretty harsh joke. Lots of people probably have wasted many hours because of it.

 

[Kaination]

I agree, if this was a joke then its a pretty harsh joke. Lots of people probably have wasted many hours because of it.

I think that's what made it so great.

Everyone was fooled.

I give my salutations and respect to FileFront.

 

[Renyori]

Maybe because it didn't affect you. If it were me, and it caused alot of inconvenience and waste so much of my time, I would be pretty pissed off.

edit:

Turns out FF isn't going to be shut down, and it was not an April fools joke. The founders decided to buy the company back from Ziff Davis Media.

http://welcome.filefront.com/

 

[sub]

Good news. I wonder if filefront makes any money. I mean, if it makes money, why would Ziff Davis (Why did Ziff Davis even own Filefront? Didn't Ugo buy filefront when they bough 1UP?) sell it? If it doesn't make money, why would they buy it.

 

[MC]

Maybe because it didn't affect you. If it were me, and it caused alot of inconvenience and waste so much of my time, I would be pretty pissed off.

edit:

Turns out FF isn't going to be shut down, and it was not an April fools joke. The founders decided to buy the company back from Ziff Davis Media.

http://welcome.filefront.com/

Thanks for the information.

I updated the original post of this thread to include the new announcement.

 

[Renyori]

Good news. I wonder if filefront makes any money. I mean, if it makes money, why would Ziff Davis (Why did Ziff Davis even own Filefront? Didn't Ugo buy filefront when they bough 1UP?) sell it? If it doesn't make money, why would they buy it.

Of course, basically any site with lots of traffic makes alot of money through advertisements and stuff. Gaming companies pay big traffic gaming-related sites to advertise their games, fashion companies pay clothing-related sites to advertise their clothes, etc. Youtube got so much traffic that Google bought it for like 3.5 billion dollars.

 

[Skyrider]

Yea, I knew this kinda thing was going to happen when I posted a reply yesterday. Just didn't really wanted to mention it yet ^^.