btcguild = "so far, so good"

nmc may still have a bumpy ride till the rebase or re-implementation on libcoin (and maybe beyond).. but there are enough people (and devs [not that devs aren't people]) working on Namecoin and related projects to improve and maintain it.
Even if this fork is/was successful, there are some little "not as important" issues that need fixing, but will be left till the next hard fork.

Some things to look forward to:

Secure Login Systems
Namecoin Torrent Client (decentralized/censorship resistant)
Fair Name Trading (buy/sell namecoin names in your client safely)
Namecoin Instant Messenger (secure messaging system)
Lite client
Decentralized MicroBlog
Secure Web Browsing .bit domains

and much more...

Please support namecoin by donating to the NMC development fund, or registering and helping on the forum. www.namecoin.info