Obviously this thread would continue to be an important communication channel. But a forum enables to coordinate development, marketing etc. much better. I remember the experience of Peercoin: Before they got a forum (Peercointalk) it was more-or-less a one-man project. When the forum opened, soon there emerged discussions about future developments and a marketing team was formed, which drove attention to the coin and made it a top-5 coin for most of 2013 and 2014.

I have currently syncing problems at block 228116. Somebody knows what to do? The last block seems to be on the main chain, at least it has the same block hash as 228116 on the bchain.info block explorer. Have redownloaded blockchain from an earlier snapshot three times now, without luck. Looking at debug.log I see a "Check proof-of-burn error", probably caused by an orphan block.