After all the delays and all the rubbish around this entire ordeal… The tangled mess that became File Front has ended.
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With the original founders buying it from Ziff Davis to keep it open.
Here’s an excerpt from the announcement.
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!
You can read the full announcement here.
To make one point perfectly clear from our perspective… BWL will not be moving back unless something happens with our new host. I’ve already paid more then $50 in fees to our host for premium service and another more then $50 to my bank in releated fees.
I can’t get nearly that much back. And I’m going to be skipping a meal or two over the next two weeks until my next paycheck arrives.
This business with FileFront was very poorly managed from the outset. We as hosted sites had zero warning that the site would close and take us with it. We also had zero warning that a deal was in the works that might save the old site.
I’m happy to have our new host and be able to expand our functions a little. Fictions for other games are now more then welcome here and we will be adding at least a handful of additional forums in the gaming section for other popular games our members play.
We have long since passed the point of no return here… and I think we will be better off for it.
Be sure to post suggestions in this thread. And also indicate if you would be interested in tracking/writing news for one of these games/subjects. We will choose five by the end of April. Also, let me know if you have some “feature” that you would like to write about regularly.
We’re looking to take this site a little further then it has ever gone before. Even so, FileFront continues to offer the best free file hosting option we have. Therefore, I will continue to use their file services for our downloads.
