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FileFront Reopens Its Doors
boarder8925 writes "FileFront, who announced on March 24th that they would be shutting down, has been given new life. The original owners of the website bought it back from Ziff Davis Media, who shut down FileFront because it had become financially unviable. '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.' They repeatedly state that this is not an April Fool's Day joke, and indeed the site appears to be up and running as usual."
Filefront, while a little obnoxious in presentation, is(was?*) one of the better file hosting sites.
It was generally fast enough, had no registration requirement for download (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!), did not have those stupid timers you have to wait on, which you inevitably forget about, then when you finally remember, they are expired and you have to start the process over again, and had a generous size limit.
*I haven't used filefront in roughly three years.
And now they have a story on this site. As another poster pointed out he has never heard of FF until now. Reminds me of those "Closing Down Sale"'s that shops have .. then suddenly they are back the next month "miraculously saved", by shadowy founder figures.