I agree with your sentiment exactly. My thing is, I think since there is no "company" that has a "board" to answer to, when the community gets antsy and impatient, bugs can cause developers to abandon projects rather than answer to an angry community.
While this is not the best response, it seems there is little room for error from the expectations of the community when the devs essentially get no beta-testing phase and have to many times release untested software. The reactionary nature of this free market is probably very scary and intimidating to developers, so I can truly understand why they just cut and run sometimes.
Now, this project has promise in my opinion. It also seems to have a large community full of reasonable and knowledgeable people. I understand the anticipation factor that comes with being involved in cryptos, but I think if the Mast Developers understood that the community IS legitimately behind them, it might make them come back or hand over the project more willingly. They seemed to be pretty transparent about most things up until this last week, so I am hoping they help resolve this situation.
Chris
Hi Chris,
The current developers have historically been most active in the #mastcoin irc channel on freenode. Could you by any chance hop in? They're currently idling in the chat, but otherwise inactive. I'm sure the best method to get in contact with them would be via those means.
Much of the community is also resident there, and thus for a broader and more responsive audience I'd recommend establishing a presence in the IRC channel.
Anyway, I'm very happy that another team is taking interest in the coin. As we currently understand it, we have generally had an exposure problem rather than any other sort of issue (which I believe is largely responsible for the lack of developer activity), and thus would welcome input in that regard as well.
Thank you for your time,
Nebulaz
(Nebulas on Freenode)