Well there is a mailing list where all important updates come up pretty fast, and the DEV is on the issue tracker at github, and responds very quickly. He even has is email address listed in response to Sunny Kings exploit discovery, so if in an emergency you could contact via email.

That said I agree, it could have been handled a bit different. At one point though we supposedly had the equivalent of 6% of the BTC network hashing TRC, I think when the dev and others imagined the difficulty "going to the moon" we never thought anywhere near that high. Hence getting the difficulty to settle in any reasonable amount of time became a challenge. The Dev realizes the difficulty of having two mandatory updates one right after another and apologised. Right now it's a temporary fix while a better solution to the difficulty problem has to be found. If ASIC's were to stay on the chain we would be fine, it's figuring how to deal with gpu's one minute, super computers the next, and back to GPU's.

So, growing pains. None of us thrilled about it unfortunately. That said, the price is holding steady on BTC-E, so people still believe (I still do). It's an alt chain, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect more then a few bumps along the way.

Anyway, the mailing list will keep anyone up to date though.