The difficulty to mine the coin hurts it some. For those looking for easy to mine Scrypt coins, it is just above what they are looking for. there is a small, loyal mining group and they push hard, keeping the diff pretty high. The best attention that we have seen it get in the mining community is as a merge mined coin or a as an alternate payout to easier to mine coins.
LDOGE is no longer mineable...It hasn't been since a week to a month after the coin first launched (I don't remember specifics, it was a long time ago and the dev from then quit). It is purely POS.