Is eQuest finished?
The website is down again, and with what seems like reduced support over the last few years, it seems like they're shutting it down. Is eQuest done? Has anyone heard anything official?
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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:
- see Wayback:doe2.com/equest, or,
- direct link to 3.65 build 7173 installer
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My understanding (based on hearsay from the eQUEST user's list at onebuildilng.org) is that a new version of eQUEST is in the works and that development is ongoing. I too suspect that the website thing is a temporary glitch.
Quick correction, the DOE2/eQuest site is doe2.com, not doe.com. And it is up right now. Also, these are not to be confused with the US DOE (Department of Energy) site which is energy.gov.
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