The Fate of FileFront/GameFront

Jeff wrote:

Hey all,

While the fact that the Network Sites are now, suddenly, offline may come as a surprise to many, we all knew this day would come.

Of course, the websites were a big part of the history and overall contribution to GameFront for a lengthy period of time. They brought with them a thriving community based around popular titles of the time and files that couldn't be found anywhere else on the internet. (literally) Of course, we had our spats and occasional turbulent times, but in the end we all came together as one big family.

The problem is, the house we lived in wasn't built in a way that could allow those who didn't create it, to fix its issues properly. When you try to fix one thing, several other sections would break down. Of course, when you bring in a team that has never seen the network site code before and ask them to repair the issues, you're going to find that it's as daunting a task as asking a toddler to stop saying "no".

So, because of the difficulty and amount of work it would take to even learn how everything operated before anything could be fixed, it was pushed to the back burner to fix other portions of GameFront.

Now, I would like to say in the defense of our corporate overlords that they did return to the network sites to look into them when they could, but, as I said above about not knowing what made what work, they ended up not doing much of anything to fix the issues. It's not their fault, the way the sites were coded were never really meant to make sense to those who created it as they never expected others to ever look at it.

So here we are, a large portion of GameFront that hasn't been able to be updated in years, mixed with random issues that plague it such as screenshots randomly not loading even when they're physically there or the load balance issue that forced you to refresh the page until you were given a valid link to download a file from. It went from a symbol of gaming quality to a blotch on GameFront that made us look broken.

The sites were taken offline and will not return. Right now, we're working on getting the domains to redirect to their respective GameFront counterparts. But, the network sites as you knew them are gone.

I apologize to those who still used them and throughout the years of their use, I thank the volunteers that participated in making them work. Without your support, they wouldn't have lasted nearly as long as they have.

Thanks,
Jeff Mills
GameFront Site/Community/All-of-the-above Manager

Reference: http://forums.filefront.com/announcements/459284-network-sites-now-permanently-offline.html#post5772633

Looking for JK2/JKA skins and other mods will be a bit harder now, especially since that was a major Battlefront modding site. For skinning needs I would recommend moving onto JKHub I guess.

Sorry for the false alarm. It appears you can download and access other pages. Though it appears JK2 has been pulled. Jedi Academy still has a files section.

Well that's a shame! Don't they know JK2 is still alive, kind of?!

That sucks ! I got so much stuff from there, even uploaded my own stuff !

poof.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150526122031/http://jediknight3.filefront.com/

(side note, I don't think you can dl anything though)

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

They blocked my country anyway for some reason.

Shame though. D:

If anything, we should be able to get skins and maps from link on forum. It is dropbox after all (i just dont remember what all skins or maps from filefront are there)

Does not matter.
The every jk2 player has the best and coolest mods/skins anyway.
We could just visit other clans and talk to them to collect a huge jk2 media package.

All of the clan skins are in Dropbox, there are some skins that aren't part of it, but there aren't too many.