It was announced several hours ago GameFront will be shutting down its file hosting services on April 30th - two weeks from now.
They were one of the most well known file hosting services for mods at the turn of the millennium and host many HW1, Cata and early HW2 mods. The article recommends the modding community as a whole - for all games - download and find new hosting for any files we want to preserve.
The folks over at ModDB have explicitly suggested we move any mods, addons, and games to ModDB.
ModDB is already hosting many of these files already, so we don’t want to upload any duplicates. HOWEVER, there’s a snag: ModDB has an archival system which hides mods that haven’t seen any activity for a long time, and it’s just about impossible to find those mods without knowing they exist in the first place. Here’s an example of one.
As far as I know, there’s no way to do a search for all archived mods of a particular game like you can for non-archived mods. You won’t find Slipstream: TPoF listed when you search for all Homeworld 2 mods. That makes preventing redundant uploads (not to mention finding mods to play!) a right pain. I’m at a bit of a loss. What’s a smart course of action, here?