Sadly its not the banter of the forums that are a valued loss, it's the documentary of the progressive QuakeC/ C tuts etc (forums also) that are integral to all {game} historians, -- sadly missed
The loss of Qsrc is upsetting, and the content it contained is irreplaceable.
People do move on with their lives, but, I think that unless something actually happened to Ender on a personal level, he should make the site source available to someone with the webspace to host it.
r00k wrote:I thought it was cause his server crashed, and the backup drive hadnt created a back up in years...
If that's all it is, at least he should fess up. OK, it would be annoying if a basic mistake like that was the cause, but coming clean and admitting it would be preferable to this endless string of vague promises with things getting progressively further back. And would get him more respect in the long run if, as seems likely, the worst turns out to be true.
We had the power, we had the space, we had a sense of time and place
We knew the words, we knew the score, we knew what we were fighting for
The closest I can get to even trying to figure it out, is by using "openssl passwd -1 blah" and looking at the output from that, and that is useless because it seems to generate different output every time
Although, brute force in 3 days = not likely.