Okay, I just noticed this thread this morning. Here are my initial thoughts.
I'm not a coder so I was not directly involved in any of the actual coding development. But for every post I made regarding the anonymous transfer feature for Cinni, I was under the impression that it was in progress, and had no reason to think otherwise.
As for the reason I stepped down as community manager, I had a summer internship that obligated 80 hour work weeks from June to August. I am just returning home from that internship now. I will return on Thursday, after which I would be happy to discuss any and all clarifying questions on IRC to the best of my knowledge.
Again, I joined cinni project as a volunteer community manager after the project was about 1-2 weeks old. This much should be evident if you go digging through the old thread. I was not involved in the original creation of this coin. Neither did I know cinnidev or rynomster prior to the creation of cinni, but only afterwards.
I don't know what to say regarding the conspiracy theories other than that they are simply not true. I would be happy to provide a log of every single private message between cinnicoin dev and myself via bitcointalk when I return on Thursday - from reading this, it should become clear that i was not collaborative with him with any ill intention, and that I did not know him prior to cinnicoin.
I have sent cinnidev in the first weeks of cinni being created, numerous PMs trying to get him to publicly reveal his identity to me and the community for the good of the coins image - why would I do this if I was already conspiring with him? I have also sent cinnidev numerous PMs to get him to communicate with the team via irc, email, etc, but he would only communicate via bct. Communication with him was infuriating, to say the least. Anyways, I will post this if desired.
I would ask that we be respectful to each other, if possible, and I apologize for any confusion on my part.
Sorry, but the timing is all really suspect - and, yes, that's my interpretation. Also, and this isn't even touched upon in the summary, the reality is that you became disengaged from CINNI before your made your absence official. Again, I dont fault anyone for pursuing their own interests and other coins - heck, I have, who wouldn't. I just feel the CINNI community was hyper-sold a bill of goods about this anon tech before key devs all left around the same time, leaving CINNI an empty shell. The chronology and quotes are all there for people to review, challenge and "interpret" for themselves.
Feel free to add anything independently verifiable to the record of what happened, because the facts I know that were public paint a pretty clear picture to me.
They also paint a clear picture of a community manager who was working voluntarily to try to help a coin, and made announcements of features that, at the time, he believed were truly in development.
Yes, I went silent and stepped down as comm mgr, mainly due to my internship obligations. I did at some point come to the understanding that no anon transfers would be released for Cinni, however this was after all announcements I made. Perhaps I should have been the one to break the bad news, but I decided to let rynomster open that can of worms as he saw best, it was his decision, after all. Ultimately, I had no control over his continued development for Cinni, but neither was he obligated. And cinnidev did not make things easier, though he seemed sincere enough, his poor communication was disabling, I can't blame rynomster for leaving one bit.