There were delays because the community demanded and exchange for the snapshot. They announced in advance that Bittrex would not be handling the swap and offered Bittrex Helium for anyone that didn't get the news and held their coins there. They did not promise a date to launch the wallet and make Helium chain go live, they are working on it. These are all signs of a well thought out project, they aren't rushing anything.
When did they offer Helium for anyone who held their coins at Bittrex? I know a few people who asked the founder how to get helium and was told to contact Bittrex and try to get them on board. After Back and forth with Bittrex they said that they wouldn't be doing anything to swap the coins so we gave up.
The whole time, it was announced they were going to bittrex and in talks with them. Then all of a sudden 1 week before the airdrop they change to Cryptopia and give no notice except in slack. They didn't even bother to update the front page of their ANN or anywhere on their website with this info. So after pushing the airdrop date for months, they announce a diff exchange and the only place that you could find that info was slack.
So announcing a new exchange for the swap 1 week prior after months of delay is good practice with you? not having any peep or wallet up weeks later is good practice also? Not even bothering to update their ANN/Website with Swap details also? You're shilling hard to even suggest that this process was handled well
I got news that it was going to be on Cryptopia from this thread. coins101 made a statement that they are trying to get Bittrex support to swap people that held there accidently, he said the Helium team offered Helium to Bittrex to accommodate them.