It allows anyone to upload modules, and provides charts, reviews and ratings of music files based on a community effort.

The Mod Archive was established in February 1996 as a place for tracker artists to upload their work.

In an effort to make the website more dynamic, the community part of the site was added around 2000, in the form of message boards and an indexed search engine.

Having lacked proper maintenance since around 2004, however, the site went through a complete reimplementation, beginning in November 2005 and leaving private beta in August 2006.

Reusing the tracker music files published on the website requires the song's author permission.