There are some projects of decentralised exchanges, like Radar Relay, etc.. the problem is they don´t have much volume yet. The future is to have many more. I don´t think ED is particularly buggy, but the Ethereum network is very temperamental.
Yeah, I haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary. Etherdelta has been buggy as hell since birth, but a few refreshes or tweaking of the gas price has always solved the problem for me. The bigger problem is that I just don't trust them anymore after the DNS compromise. That was total amateur-hour shit. But it was important because it highlighted our dependence on centralized DNS for DEX protocols, which is unnecessary. Etherdelta is definitely part of the "first generation" of DEX. It's fitting that they are doing an ICO now; it's their exit from the market as the second generation comes online.
