Dev is active (check his profile)...
And he's taken the time to PM people on various issues...
I'd rather have him working than joking with 1,000 morons in slack.

This is a serious project at a serious stage... alpha testing of torrent functionality...
There is a reason why you have zero working crypto torrent projects as of May 2015...
Except maybe Storj (uses torrent lib) apparently finished 1st round of alpha = many months away.