Jedi Academy Filefront is GONE

[Asrien]

Not overly recent news but yeah the Filefront for Jedi Academy was taken down in August, because I think Gamefront was bought by a new company or something and they were unable to keep the old Filefronts working, since there's a lot of control given to the people running them. Sadly this means a lot of Jedi Academy mods are now dead, or at least much harder to find. Fortunately there's another site called JKHub.org which was around at the same time as the Filefront, but is now kinda rising from the ashes of its demise as the centerpoint for most mods or support for them.

Raises an interesting question about whether or not game modding is at risk of death in the same way as some games. I was really depressed to find out about it actually, I just got back into Jedi Academy and now it'll be different.

Anyone have thoughts? Also sorry if this was chucked in the wrong forum, new here.

[BTGBullseye]

Should move mods to a server-seeded torrent system. This would not only allow direct downloads from the server, but distributed file sharing that will reduce bandwidth constraints for the server, and increase the likelihood of a mod surviving if the server copy is inaccessible for some reason. Unfortunately, this has been overly villainized by modern media, so it's difficult or impossible to achieve now.

[Asrien]

I've seen a few mods officially available for torrenting, which is good but yeah you're right. Although I think this problem was more that the original controllers of the site didn't back all its content up to re-release somewhere else or something. Which means most of it's just GONE.

[UndeadNecro]

Should move mods to a server-seeded torrent system. This would not only allow direct downloads from the server, but distributed file sharing that will reduce bandwidth constraints for the server, and increase the likelihood of a mod surviving if the server copy is inaccessible for some reason. Unfortunately, this has been overly villainized by modern media, so it's difficult or impossible to achieve now.

Well, they are "famous" for being infested with viruses, like everything else.

[BTGBullseye]

Well, they are "famous" for being infested with viruses, like everything else.

Thing is, any reputable site will tell you to scan everything immediately, report torrents that are infected, don't freak out about false positives that occur from most keygens/no-cd patches, and if you're really really worried about viruses download only from trusted uploaders. (on KAT they are denoted by a crown next to their username, on TPB it was a skull, on Demonoid it was everyone)

 

The true infection rate of torrents on major sites is actually so low that I would be perfectly comfortable torrenting without any AV running.

[Asrien]

Well, they are "famous" for being infested with viruses, like everything else.

Thing is, any reputable site will tell you to scan everything immediately, report torrents that are infected, don't freak out about false positives that occur from most keygens/no-cd patches, and if you're really really worried about viruses download only from trusted uploaders. (on KAT they are denoted by a crown next to their username, on TPB it was a skull, on Demonoid it was everyone)

 

The true infection rate of torrents on major sites is actually so low that I would be perfectly comfortable torrenting without any AV running.

Absolutely. That was a stigma that came very early on in the days of torrenting, and it's all but a non-existent problem to anyone who knows what they're doing.