And for those enduring the pain of the loss/difficulties of the loss of sunset.se mirror (and many thanks for Spirit for his VITAL single player archive) ... well this is just getting scary to me and I hope it is to others.
Will these sites come back up? I hope so. But what if they don't? What if *next time* they don't?
Inside3d.com (the modders) are discussing a similar issue --- "That and theres the inherent problem that Quake seems to be currently in the hands of non-Quake fans who dont even realize it."
"as right now we are at the mercy of a myriad of scattered sites that have no idea what they hold"