I think I read somewhere that the old DOGE multi-bit wallet is still working,maybe that would be a better alternative than to download the whole blockchain for anybody that is interested in doing it.
the fewer people download the blockchain and the fewer run full nodes with open port 22556,
the worse the network will run, and this will hurt everyone in the end.
Here is my conclusion after running a doge full node for 24 hours with ca 500 peers connected:
Ratio of Up/Download is 50:1,
this is also the ratio of incoming/outgoing connections
which means I am only connected to about 10 other full nodes, the rest are just wallets wanting to download from me.
Horrible ratio, and this causes even my full node to often fall back in sync for an hour or so.