Thanks for your input - here's my take on the different issues -
1) only one small-ish exchange currently carrying it. any update on efforts to get MEG on cryptsy/mcxnow/etc.? If we as a group help to increase awareness and demand by asking for inclusion on exchanges, it should help speed up the process.
More exchanges would certainly be helpful, but its the first exchange that makes the big difference - we've got a way for the market to express its opinion on the price of MEG, even if that price is low, it's important that it is there.
2) comparatively unreliable client + no pool. I can only hope Freetrade is hunting down the instabilities, and for the pool I think we need to start a grant (I would have already if I knew how) simply to stockpile coins as a reward for someone to make a pool. Eventually the reward should be large enough for someone to actually do it.
If you only read the forums, you'd be convinced the client is flaky. It's not. It's very stable now, and that's come from a process of being open about the problems and encouraging people to report them. We've still got an occasional problem with hanging on blocks that's I'm looking at, but most people are not having a problem with stability now.
Also, we've got a $100 bounty for a pool now -
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/memorycoin-pool-100-usd-expires-soon-278782Because we've got grants built into the blockchain, we're likely to be able to offer continuing grants for new projects - something that will keep MC going, while other coins wither through lack of dev.
3) almost no publicity, which in the face of XPM, QRK, and newly released SRC (granted just a better organized QRK), is making difficulty plummet right now. I think a lot could be done on this front just from periodic development updates (I wouldn't even understand most of it, but guaranteed it makes your average user feel better knowing that the dev is actively working on things, not to mention the updates would be a nice bump in the forums)
Yes we could probably do with a re-launch at some point. I think the people who are most confident with MC are just accumulating at the moment.
4) lack of information on voting system. There are some decent guidelines, but for me the explanations still leave a lot to be desired (hell I don't even know if sending Satoshis is referring to sending BTC or MEG to the target address, but I'm a newbie at this stuff). For this kind of feature to be truly highlighted and showcased, you'd need to figure out a way to incorporate it into the miner GUI for ease of use, at least the voting part (probably not the easiest thing to implement, but it'd do wonders for public adoption and encouraging voting). There definitely needs to be a central forum where grants/proposals are listed, so people understand their options.
Yes, could do with a writeup on this.