This happens a lot with this coin.  The difficulty will ramp up and then it takes forever and a day to crack a block.  That's the downside of 4yo mining algorithms and no consistent mining power behind it.  Give it some time and it will show a new block.  I can remember times when I was syncing and it would say "last block 3 days ago", or even worse.

I like the idea of moving over to a GPU only algo for this coin, but I'm tempted to port over the multi-algo core code we're using over in AUR.  I could essentially work on two separate coins at the same time then by using the same codebase.  Easiest thing would be to just port LTC code and all the tools that go along with it, but then we're just riding the LTC code train again, just 4 years later.

-Fuse