I worked in Filefront's news department for almost two years, worked closely with the file guys and had a small staff under me. I hope they save everything, lots of oldschool mods and whatnot on there. I remember when we covered E3, we got a video of Gary Coleman, someone asked him to say "Hi Filefront!" and he just said "What's filefront..." LOL.. ahh good times.
Yes, we started archiving them last year when news updates stopped with no explanation. We've saved 28 TB so far[1] and we plan to do a final pass to grab anything we missed. All the files we've archived should be available to download through the IA's WayBack Machine at their original URLs (for example[2]).
Thank you! It is always so upsetting to try to play an old game, and find that the mods have been lost to history.
Archive Team is _always_ on the case. Their Warrior VM to help archive sites going away is a great VM to run locally or with free credits on Digital Ocean.