Is there seriously still no working block explorer?
Globalcoin is about the same price, has a better name, is fast at 40 seconds, is about the same price on Cryptsy and has a block explorer. Maybe FST volume should roll into GLC instead.
Also, has 70 million total coins vs 165 million and the subsidy halves much faster, so you do not have the level of dilution that you have in Fast over the next year.
The servers in which the block explorer are hosted went down temporally on 1st of July due to a prolonged power outage which ended up exhausting the UPS. If you hadn't noticed, the explorer is up. Also, the bitcointalk threads are not entirely used by those in the Fastcoin community. There is a fastcointalk.org forum for that.
The majority of posts made by users on bitcointalk these days have been related to new pools or exchange notifications. Comparing between coins isn't new, I've heard plenty from other users which offer their differential opinions based on another coin, worldcoin for instance. Each coin has their differences, Fastcoin offers a very unique re-targeting scheme, many users simply have been dumping all their altcoins on exchanges in trade for BTC. Fastcoin is being used in real world situations now paired with it's android wallet. That being said, it's still fast, it's secure, the devs don't need to boast about racecars or worry about what the current exchange rate is, it's about the transfer of exchanged decimal places...fast. There is also no dilution, what has been originaly specified as the halving subsidy is quite simple, halving once a year, which now is rewarding 16 coins instead of 32.
You'll also notice that the majority of the volume is not conducted via exchanges, rather it is from user to user, client to business, supporter to non-profit. This is what I like about Fastcoin.