I went through this thread and there was almost no activity here since last year, there is no need to come up with conspiracy theories as we would like for things to be friendly.
I don't know what you mean by almost no activity. Sure it isn't a huge volume thread like the major coins, but just a month ago the dev was giving shout-outs to community members for their work, announcing a new release of the wallet to support transaction splitting, and reminding people to join IRC. That does not strike me as particularly dead for a small coin/community like this.
@smic - thank you for your work 
I highly appreciate it
@Kushedout - the bot is amazing. Respect to all involved in it
I made an extended version of simplewallet:
I highly appreciate it@Kushedout - the bot is amazing. Respect to all involved in it
I made an extended version of simplewallet:
Currently, our IRC channel #dashcoin is the place where the community is most active. The bot sitting there is the first Dashcoin service, come and check it - http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#dashcoin