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I would supposed the website thing is just a temporary glitch, at least I would be very surprised anyone would just completely drop that website even if ongoing development of DOE2 and eQuest was to be completely stopped.
There is a related question with good info regarding your "reduced support over the last few years" that I suggest reading too: Will eQuest continue to be supported?
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I'm purely speculating here, but I would supposed suppose the website thing is just a temporary glitch, at least I would be very surprised anyone would just completely drop that website even if ongoing development of DOE2 and eQuest was to be completely stopped.stopped. The doe.com domain is apparently registered until 2024, so it'd cost a few bucks a year worth of hosting service and it could just run afloat without maintenance.
There is a related question with good info regarding your "reduced support over the last few years" that I suggest reading too: Will eQuest continue to be supported?.
If the only thing you want to do is to access the link on the www.doe2.com/equest, they are still working, you just need to use the wayback machine or something similar to retrieve valid links. (page on WaybackMachine, or direct link to 3.65 build 7173 installer)
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I'm purely speculating here, but I would suppose the website thing is just a temporary glitch, at least I would be very surprised anyone would just completely drop that website even if ongoing development of DOE2 and eQuest was to be completely stopped. The doe.com domain is apparently registered until 2024, so it'd cost a few bucks a year worth of hosting service and it could just run afloat without maintenance.
There is a related question with good info regarding your "reduced support over the last few years" comment that I suggest reading too: Will eQuest continue to be supported?.
If The Wayback Machine captured a snapshot at the only thing end of March 2018 that you want to do is to access the link on the www.doe2.com/equest, they are still working, you just need to could use the wayback machine or something similar to retrieve valid links. (some resources until the website is fixed or we hear something else:
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I'm purely speculating here, but I would suppose the website thing is just a temporary glitch, at least I would be very surprised anyone would just completely drop that website even if ongoing development of DOE2 and eQuest was to be completely stopped. The doe.com domain is apparently registered until 2024, so it'd cost a few bucks a year worth of hosting service and it could just run afloat without maintenance.much maintenance. It wouldn't be the first time someone forgot to paid the hosting service invoice or the website just crashed without anyone noticing.
There is a related question with good info regarding your "reduced support over the last few years" comment that I suggest reading too: Will eQuest continue to be supported?.
The Wayback Machine captured a snapshot at the end of March 2018 that you could use to retrieve some resources until the website is fixed or we hear something else:
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I'm purely speculating here, but I would suppose the website thing is just a temporary glitch, at least I would be very surprised anyone would just completely drop that website even if ongoing development of DOE2 and eQuest was to be completely stopped. The doe.comdoe2.com
There is a related question with good info regarding your "reduced support over the last few years" comment that I suggest reading too: Will eQuest continue to be supported?.
The Wayback Machine captured a snapshot at the end of March 2018 that you could use to retrieve some resources until the website is fixed or we hear something else:
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Edit (2018-05-04): http://doe2.com/equest/ is up right now
I'm purely speculating here, but I would suppose the website thing is just a temporary glitch, at least I would be very surprised anyone would just completely drop that website even if ongoing development of DOE2 and eQuest was to be completely stopped. The doe2.com domain is apparently registered until 2024, so it'd cost a few bucks a year worth of hosting service and it could just run afloat without much maintenance. It wouldn't be the first time someone forgot to paid the hosting service invoice or the website just crashed without anyone noticing.
There is a related question with good info regarding your "reduced support over the last few years" comment that I suggest reading too: Will eQuest continue to be supported?.
The Wayback Machine captured a snapshot at the end of March 2018 that you could use to retrieve some resources until the website is fixed or we hear something else:
