To the argument that says they have no time to make one single post: they DO have time to make a post if they DO have time to log into both their bitcointalk and ecointalk accounts.
http://ecointalk.net/user/5-blackarrow/Blackarrow was again online last night but didn't make a post.
What do you want them to post? Simply...... nothing has changed we are still on target... or we are behind.... Or just Hi.... What would that solve? I guess it might make people all warm and fuzzy inside. I think the best thing they can do would be.... 1.) Get the site back... and 2.) answer tickets. 3.) Post an update on their site. With that order being about right.
any of the above would be fine.
these postings here are after many of us, myself included, have asked politely over and over again via their boards and social media sites for an answer to these simple questions as to an update on boards/chips etc.
People have been patient and are only now beginning to get edgy as it doesn't take a skilled manufacturing operations expert to realize that if they haven't gone to tapeout/bumpout, the target date is in serious jeopardy.
If they've got the time to tell us all is hunky dory, they've got the time to tell us they've gone to tapeout and snap a couple of pics. or that they haven't, and level with us as to where they're actually at.
I don't want warm and fuzzy for my 12 grand, I want results and some amount of accountability with respect to deadlines on a time critical project. That's business and there's nothing warm and fuzzy about it.