The /qa/ people have been popping in and out for a while now, just like the other altchan remnants, besides the idea that they took the site down themselves and bragged about it for half a day on the very page itself definitely drove traffic to their page
Every alt you go to there's a refugee camp with their ukie-chugger split, their trump, brit, natsoc generals and such no matter where they are, even on the fringes of ponyland, there's guys out there trying to colonize crystal cafe, this sort of devastation hasn't been seen since the sack of Constantinople