BTC Guild does instant updates on their news section and site-wide if necessary. That is exactly the reason why they are No. 1 - they put their customers and community first.
well, technically, they are number 1 because ASICMiner currently mines there, but that will be changing, soon. For company that isn't even in the industry we are talking about, it's kinda like comparing apples to oranges.
I applaud WeEx for focusing on the issue first. Support emails can wait, I want my coins.
ASICMiner mines at BitMinter as well and furthermore BTC Guild has been No.1 for years now, before we even heard of FPGAs, let alone ASIC. 45% of the community mines at the Guild because they are trustworthy, because they speak business, which means communications. I never said anything of emails, I specifically brought up the example of the erffortlessness of a quick news update on WeExchange's front page. WX failed to do so, you are protecting them of reasons unknown and your ASIC argument is flawed at best.
If you want a Apple-to-Apple comparison, take bitcoin.de, the biggest German Exchange, their support answers in a highly professional tonality after 1-2 hours to each request I opened with them. So, guess why everyone is quick blaming Mt. Gox, it is not because of their incompentence to join a CDN that can handle DDoS in an appropiate manner, it is because they fail to communicate properly. You have to undertake extreme measures to get hold of their support by joining certain IRC rooms and you would have to know whom to talk to, who will then forward your request to their support. I call that a joke at best rather than customer support.
As another example of communications failure, take BFL. Josh their front PR man, who is known to have a PHD in insulting customers - that is in my opinion mainly the reason why 98% of the community disapproves BFL and not BFLs obvious lack of knowledge how to manage a project. I rest my case.