Originally Posted by Blank Stare (Post 4850027)

Change the name back to GamingForums please!

Originally Posted by n0e (Post 4850021)

Redm, please update your signature. Welcome to 2009 ;)

Originally Posted by Blank Stare (Post 4850027)

Change the name back to GamingForums please!

Originally Posted by Stewie (Post 4850147)

4thed/5thed/6thed?

Originally Posted by Crazy Wolf (Post 4850354)

No grudge against Ziff Davis, but a little advance warning would have been nice. A return to the GamingForums name would be nice, but we would lose the ability to tell newbies "Y'know, back in my day, we were called GamingForums, plain and simple! We had to walk uphill both ways 5 miles over a dirt road to get our bandwidth for the day, and if we spilled any from the bucket, n0e and AzH would cut switches from the yard and beat us in the britches!"

Originally Posted by Miltonmonkey (Post 4850357)

I thought we were dragged into a terrible, horrible, thunderdrome-esque pit called "The Melee".


*shudders*

Originally Posted by Miltonmonkey (Post 4850357)

I thought we were dragged into a terrible, horrible, thunderdrome-esque pit called "The Melee".


*shudders*

Originally Posted by n0e (Post 4850447)

no

there's a reason why people fear hasselhoff on these forums. I'll leave it at that.

Originally Posted by Fluxx (Post 4850430)

yes. have done since before the joke...

Originally Posted by Admiral Donutz (Post 4850486)

Which joke?

Originally Posted by Giz (Post 4850012)

I'm there, but under a different name. Can you guess who?
(no cheating!)

Originally Posted by Giz (Post 4850518)

I figured it'd be easier now that my signature image is the same. :p

Originally Posted by Admiral Donutz (Post 4850486)

Which joke?

Originally Posted by Fluxx (Post 4850430)

yes. have done since before the joke...

Originally Posted by SESSH (Post 4851229)

So will this continue to be filefront or something else. I guess I'm kinda confused about that one. And what about the rest of the forums, like jk series and such? Just looking for a bit of info that I can spread around to other forums and games and such. Just tryin to be helpfull.

Originally Posted by Mr. Matt (Post 4851230)

[not-a-staff-member]

I doubt the game-specific forums are likely to change much if at all, and now that the evil overlords are out of the picture and the founders have returned home I would imagine that the FilesNetwork as a whole may even get some much-needed attention at long last. Y'never know.

[/not-a-staff-member]

Originally Posted by Metall_pingwin (Post 4849489)

Then don't.

I've been lurking about different forums and see the same thing pop up over and over again "I can't go back to FF, not after what they put me through", and it just... Well it grinds my gears.

The situation so far is as follows: Last year, Ziff Davis filed for bankruptcy, and the Network has slowly seen a decline in traffic. Just last week, Ziff Davis Media decided to pull the plug on both the Files Network and Gaming Forums, the latter going first and without any warning. As announcments were finally put up on the Network, many of the forum regulars retreated to other places, eagerly awaiting some word on the situation from people who know what is going on.

A few days into the whole debacle, Jeff "n0e" Mills (who mind you, was laid off in the process) finally managed to get some official word on the situation and asked everybody to stay vigilant. A master plan was brewing, while many of us were busy backing up as many files as possible from the network.


March 30th, n0e teamed up with StrategyInformer in order to launch the spiritual sucessor of Gaming Forums, and the Files Network. Within the first five hours of launch, the forum saw an incredible flood of FileFront refugees. Old staff was brought back, and spam threads resurected.


March 31st, A thread is posted on StrategyInformer hotlinking to the forums. Although the main page does not work, everybody has access to the "General Chit-Chat" section. Within minutes, confusion and spamming begin.
Jeff "n0e" Mills brings the first official word on the forums. Although he himself knows little, the forums are supposed to come back.


April 1st, The official announcement is made. FileFront has been purchased from Ziff Davis by some of it's original owners. The two entities are now completely separate, and the lookout is positive. The goal: Bring GF back to it's pre-corporate days.


On the brink of destruction, FileFront has been saved in the last minute by people who legitimately care for the community and had nothing to do with it's closure. All complaints and revenge notes should be directed towards Ziff Davis Media - Ziff Davis Publishing - Corporate Information



tl;dr: Not a joke, Bat people out, good people in.

Originally Posted by Uwsar-Hat-Anupuw (Post 4851360)

So if your hurt beacuse a fourm and the networks went down hummm doesn't that mean you usally don't have a life? AS far as I'm concered it's only a fourm and mods.

Yet I'll still give my time to the Network, but hold a grudge no I wasn't hurted nor killed by this.

Originally Posted by Serio (Post 4851373)

Define "life"? I'd define it as something sentient, and capable of performing tasks. If you're angry because that a means of communications get closed, and it means you don't have a life, you wouldn't be able to be angry in the first place.

Originally Posted by RickyL (Post 4851789)

So wait, what exactly was wrong with Ziff? Don't get me wrong, i just don't know what he did wrong?

Originally Posted by Uwsar-Hat-Anupuw (Post 4851360)

So if your hurt beacuse a fourm and the networks went down hummm doesn't that mean you usally don't have a life? AS far as I'm concered it's only a fourm and mods.

Yet I'll still give my time to the Network, but hold a grudge no I wasn't hurted nor killed by this.

Originally Posted by RickyL (Post 4851817)

Neither was I, but i was a bit annoyed. You're saying that because i enjoyed talking to people on the forum, that i have no life?

Thanks.

Originally Posted by RickyL (Post 4851896)

Again?

But i get what ya mean now :)

Originally Posted by Ramikan (Post 4849659)

There is a god!

Originally Posted by DJBarney (Post 4857283)

Well, thankyou Redm ad Cyclotron. I understand now, although I had to ask Admiral_Donutz who "the founders" are.

I find this kind of thing interesting. Why did you not put up profiles of yourself in the announcement ? It would have made it look much more legit. This entire Ziff Davis / April 1st / we're closed - now we're open episode looks like a <insert name for con> scam intended to increase publicity - a bit like those "closing down sales" that shops have. Hence the suspicion in some quarters, and from me. I made some conspiratorial sounding posts on BFSP which I will *refute* now ... but they made sense initially.

Despite my sig I will probably be around here for other games. The speed with which the community started rebuilding was startling . Maybe FF could make links with those places and have a sticky, or links page ?