The Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline

Re:The Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline by tvbusy on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:46PM (#22743583)

Sounds like someone accidentally deleted it and they have no backup. Instead of admitting to not having a backup, they can just say it was intentionally shutdown, and ask their staff to salvage whatever is available from archives.

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Re:The Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline by pfundstein on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @06:52PM (#22743635)

My first thought as well, but my second thought was why wouldn't they own up to it? Surely they know that owning up to something like this earns them much more respect and positivity from the community than "taking it down" for no good reason, or worse trying to cover it up.

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Re:The Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline by andrewflnr on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @10:05PM (#22744905)

(a) that's a lot easier to say than do, fear is powerful and (b) no, they wouldn't get any respect for Not. Having. Backups.

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Re:The Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline by cortesoft on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @10:39PM (#22745068)

No, my guess is it was hacked so they shut it down. That is probably why they say "security risk"

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Re:The Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline by SparkleBunny on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @11:35PM (#22745388)

I doubt this.

"After over a year in maintenance mode, the official Unreal Engine Wiki is now permanently offline."

It seems to have been a problem for some time.

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