I've been looking around in every Bitcoin community I'm a member of, and almost every day I can see someone saying they switched to BitcoinXT.
What's up with BitcoinXT? Does it have something to do with the recent block size discussion?
They are just looking for some quick dollars. Bitcoin XT is just another altcoin, it will never be anything more. It will die out like all the other shitty coins.
Please explain how Bitcoin XT could make its developers any money compared to Bitcoin?
For everyone else; it's Bitcoin Core modified to support larger blocks, so that it's not as badly crippled in terms of maximum transactions per second. This means it's a consensus fork; it will accept blocks the current main chain will not. It does not, however, magically hand coins to its developers, and I'm disappointed at people attacking it as some sort of get-rich-quick scheme.