I'd argue that my issue was relevant to this forum post, because I was also seeing similar read timeouts and issues with Maven. Thank you for the account warning though. Please feel free to delete/ban my account, simply because I posted about an outdated version of MC, which shouldn't matter when it comes to Maven repository response issues. Thank you for continuing to alienate a large portion of your mod development community by messing with (and updating) older versions, but refusing to provide support whatsoever. I was simply trying to provide an example of an issue that seemed more widespread than just the user who posted.