I would also add a block explorer (the old coinplorer.com has been offline for some time). I think BTE used to be listed on BTC-E, but I never did any trading there. Do you know of any block explorer or exchange currently handling BTE?
In other words, BTE bytecoin is fine, well, alive and growing. Just focus your good energy on something Pro Bytecoin like a better USD/BTE exchange or an open free market that only accepts BTE as payments or maybe a Pool or something.