Quote from: suchmoon on August 19, 2016, 01:51:04 AM

Quote from: altheshort on August 19, 2016, 12:54:38 AM

In terms of 'membership', I think it's already pretty clear that they don't really have much of an active community. If slack and/or iontalk (the unofficial forum) is a measure of pure membership, there's only at most I'd say 25-30 active contributors to discussion. That's at absolute most. Mostly it's 10-20 regular users on the slack. Granted they have more registered users on the slack channel, but even that's only around the 200 ish mark I think, and I'd be willing to wager a large proportion of those were one time sign ups out of curiosity when the coin/project launched who haven't dipped back in again. As another measure of community activity and engagement, Krumz just this week had to cancel a 'lottery' site he had started just after its launch due to lack of interest.

I've heard various numbers for the amount of staking accounts on the 'ionomy platform' that have been bandied about. I think the last I heard was in the thousands, but it's unclear if that represents individual accounts or number of stakers or what. Again, since at the moment nothing can be done with 'ions' anyway, I'd be willing to bet that at least a chunk of those staking accounts have been forgotten about by their owners due to the projects perceived inactivity.

We don't really know much about the 'team' side of things as they appear to like keeping details very closely guarded, but it was mentioned that they've had to hire additional dev(s) to help build out various features relating to the API for the ionomy platform.

What's really clear though is that this is very much a project with really limited reach at this stage. It has a tiny community, and no one outside of prior GAW investors who transferred over XPY is even aware of its existence; it's telling that even in the pre-ICO launch no major crypto journalism sites (and I use the term journalism very loosely here as they're mostly just glorified blogs/paid article sites) picked up and reported on the launch. When even crypto news sites don't write about you in this field, I think it's fair to say you might need to rethink your approach to PR.

When they rebranded xpy.io into ionomy.com did the users create new usernames/passwords or did they migrate automatically? I don't know about thousands but they could have a few hundred users that were roped in with lofty promises to rescue XPY back in 2015 and most of those probably moved on long ago.

I wish I could remember, and sadly I can't find any screenshots/archives back to then, but I think if memory serves they had to create new logins on the new 'platform' by a specific date to be migrated over? I may be completely wrong there. Either way I figure probably a significant portion of those users transferred over because there really wasn't much choice, but still aren't 'active'.