I assume the developer needs the fresh bootstrap to revive the explorer.
Mine is still syncing... slowly

. Its at Oct 10 2019 currently, block 2020520. I assume it will finish somewhere in March, in the best case.
As i understand on site in this message
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1028119.msg51578743#msg51578743have blockchain for 25.01.2020
But i don`t know now much block in him
Yep, thanks. I am syncing from scratch though. Not sure it was necessary, but just as an experiment (probably wouldn't do that if I knew it will take so long). 8-bit is somewhat prone to forks, I will check the blockhash as soon as I sync to that date. I bit of patience - I assume in two-three weeks the sync will complete

. Most probably there are folks with fresh chain, but they are silent.