There were no alerts on my Aricoin Pay side. I know this because I had to open it up to find the address to send the coins to. It gave me the address just like it always had before and there was no indication that anything was amiss. I only found out about the fork after I reached out here and asked why my coins weren't showing up in my wallet. At least that is what I remember. I sent from Cryptopia.
Perhaps the message wasn't clear enough at the time - the development team wrongly assumed everyone active on AricoinPay was providing feedback on the aricoin.org forums - everyone there would have been well aware of the changes and development progress. Needless to say, we will take extra steps to ensure this never happens again.
If devs going to revive this then they should post proper announcement, not like this.
I understand where you are coming from. To explain; we removed old source links while we work on a more stable version of Aricoin for distribution. We owe it to the community to explain the absence. It's important to know we are still behind the Aricoin vision. It's too early for an announcement as the team is still in the planning stage and we are looking to bring the original community back together. To be clear, we do have developers on board who are currently working on builds but we want to compete with the best - so we are doing our best to bring in more specialist devs to realise our vision and that requires community support.