File Front archiving in progress

[Acheos]

From the comment added at the bottom of the desc on archived mods: "This file has been archived from File Front which shut down on April 30th, 2016 and would otherwise have been lost forever. With help from the archiveteam.org and some former staff from File Front we have retained this file for prosperity."

 

Prosperity very much indeed!

 

Cheers and thanks for doing this!

[RoyBatterian]

That's great, I hope you manage to get it all.

 

Really need a similar site to preserve game patches too, it's getting hard already to find them for old games sometimes. I fear the patches scrolls won't last the decade.

 

Many are already lost to the net long ago when cdrom.com just up and disappeared.

Edited May 20, 2016 by RoyBatterian

[Castoffio]

That is a very awesome story. Kinda curious just what is all there.. Good luck

[stainglasshart]

What a lovely idea, well done! :)

[17671]

This post exemplifies some of my favorite qualities of the Nexusmods system; led by a person that makes executive decisions with transparency, and a desire to support the preservation, and presentation, of user-generated content.

 

Thanks for the update, and for the service to the community.

[ArronDominion]

This is awesome! Filefront is where I went for mods on the Star Trek games I own (Elite Force being one of the main games).

[Zaldir]

In response to post #37986910.

RoyBatterian wrote: That's great, I hope you manage to get it all.

Really need a similar site to preserve game patches too, it's getting hard already to find them for old games sometimes. I fear the patches scrolls won't last the decade.

Many are already lost to the net long ago when cdrom.com just up and disappeared.

The best solution to this would probably be for users to upload the patches themselves (as has been done for both Morrowind and Oblivion for instance).

When uploading the patches to the site, simply put them in a suggested "Patches" category.

[Psijonica]

In response to post #37974195.

jim_uk wrote: Fantastic work, it would be such a shame to see all that work lost forever, it reminds me of the hundreds of Morrowind mods that's are lost forever thanks to various hosts closing down.

This!

And although there is Morrowind Modding History I just feel that all those mods there should also be brought to the Nexus as well. The more places these mods are the less of a chance we have of losing them.

[JimboUK]

In response to post #37986910. #37988300 is also a reply to the same post.

RoyBatterian wrote: That's great, I hope you manage to get it all.

Really need a similar site to preserve game patches too, it's getting hard already to find them for old games sometimes. I fear the patches scrolls won't last the decade.

Many are already lost to the net long ago when cdrom.com just up and disappeared.

Zaldiir wrote: The best solution to this would probably be for users to upload the patches themselves (as has been done for both Morrowind and Oblivion for instance).

When uploading the patches to the site, simply put them in a suggested "Patches" category.

Is that allowed? I'd be worried about getting warned for uploading copyright material. If old patches are fine then I might so go and collect a few up before they vanish.

[JimboUK]

In response to post #37974195. #37991185 is also a reply to the same post.

jim_uk wrote: Fantastic work, it would be such a shame to see all that work lost forever, it reminds me of the hundreds of Morrowind mods that are lost forever thanks to various hosts closing down.

Psijonica wrote: This!

And although there is Morrowind Modding History I just feel that all those mods there should also be brought to the Nexus as well. The more places these mods are the less of a chance we have of losing them.

I've got an old CD somewhere with loads of Morrowind mods on it, I'll have to hunt it down and prey it's still readable.