Keep in mind people, you don't have to swap. If you hold your coins you do so for reasons of your own. I prefer to not swap since my wallet v1.1.5.6 doesn't have any issues. Swap at your own risk. There is no guarantee the new coin you are swapping to will do any better then the Ember you are giving up. I not here to bash, just to be informative and to let you know that if you do not swap, you and people like myself are in competition still with every other coin in existence and with every person still staking Ember. Happy decision making !!!
One last thing you should ask yourself, and these new coin devs is; what will happen to the coins you give them? Keep in mind, if you swap, those coins now become their coins and they do not have to burn them!
For wehat its worth I never trusted StakesUnited with any of my coins. I trust only myself, you should too. I am not a part of any developing Ember, never was. My thinking is that even if things are messed up now, doesnt mean they wont change for the better later. I willing to risk future change and HOLD !!!
Keep in mind that, after the swap, we will be shutting down the Ember seed nodes that help wallets to sync. Cryptopia is delisting Ember. C-Patex and Nova will keep trading it as long as the network runs and people are trading it, but they could delist it in the future if it continues to be abandoned. Also, the swap addresses that Ember coins are going to are burn addresses and no one has access to their privkeys.
If someone wishes to fork Ember and have a go, more power to them. It's open source on github. Atheneum is an attempt by the Ember investment community to make something valuable from the ashes of Ember.