So nothing has changed since dev got back here... still no payments, no working explorer, no update to ban old clients. I have a feeling that he has already abandoned this project.
This is a hard time for crypto currency dev to work on a project specially the price of his coin is declining. I guess he will comeback when the bull starts kicking again. For now almost every crypto project is in limbo.
These are the times where you can distinguish between devs who are quitters and devs with balls. Quitters get depressed and get lagged until bull run resumes - but then it may be too late to save a community and a project. Devs with balls on the other side keep up developing their own project also during hard and painful times. We will find out to which of the two categories belogs our dev. Even though there are already a few clues on that...