My browser / operating system: Windows NT 10.0, Chrome 120.0.0.0, No Flash version detected (SCHOOL LAPTOP)
I get this should go into the bugs and glitches, I wanted to try out the offline editor for 2.0 but it was shown:

The second step wrote:

Hmm, editor downloads are not available right now - please refresh the page to try again.

why and what
Are they under maintence?

Maybe they’re trying to make it so you can have Scratch 3.0 blocks in 2.0? I don’t really know…

Barney_at_Bonels83 wrote:

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The second step wrote:

Hmm, editor downloads are not available right now - please refresh the page to try again.

I had this same issue around a week ago when I was trying to run Scratch 2 in a Windows XP VM (don't ask why).

NotK3ndricAlt wrote:

(#2)
Maybe they’re trying to make it so you can have Scratch 3.0 blocks in 2.0? I don’t really know…

That doesn't make any sense.

That's strange. This should probably be fixed eventually, but in the mean time, here's medians's post explaining how to use the flash version of 2.0:

medians wrote:

So if you want to use the actual 2.0, you can basically install an older version of a browser that once supported Flash, or a browser that still supports Flash:
https://www.palemoon.org/download.shtml
https://classic.waterfox.net/
https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/
https://archive.org/details/flashplayer_old
And go to a url like this (you won't be able to log in though):
https://scratchfoundation.github.io/scratchx
https://web.archive.org/web/20130315000000*/scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor (if you did everything correctly, https://web.archive.org/web/20130618065222/http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/ should say v392 underneath the fullscreen button)
https://web.archive.org/web/20150601000000*/scratchx.org
https://s2online.github.io
Or you could use a version of the offline editor, as stated above.

I think it's because the security certificate expired recently, try here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240201020019/https://scratch.mit.edu/download/scratch2
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://download.scratch.mit.edu/scratch2download/sa/*
https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/scratch.mit.edu/scratch2download (for this one, make sure you have a computer that supports 32-bit)

NotK3ndricAlt wrote:

Maybe they’re trying to make it so you can have Scratch 3.0 blocks in 2.0? I don’t really know…

Why would they do that? 1.x is still there.

Can replicate: . I wonder why it's not provided at the moment the Scratch Team didn't renew the certificate.

54387a wrote:

Can replicate:. I wonder why it's not provided at the moment.

I believe I figured it out, when I went to the downloads page it said that the security certificate expired, and when I clicked “proceed” it downloaded it but also started showing the links again.