We are in right on track to get waaaaaaay more weak hands off the boat. That's actually good!

If you can, do your homework and ignore bitcointalk (just as the Dev does rightfully).

For the others - don't panic, work is indeed done in the other public (and unpublic) branches:
https://github.com/SyndicateLabs/SyndicateQT/compare/SyndicateBeta-v1.0.1.7