Riak will recover in the near future, rest assured that Ripple will not just give up. Ripple is a good and trustworthy coin, so we don't need to worry about Ripple anymore. Of course it will return to normal again
It seems that the recovery will depends on the price of bitcoin as all altcoins are dependent on the movement of bitcoin. If we can increase the demand of bitcoin then most of the alts will also improve to rise up and follow bitcoin going up. Ripple is a good coins if you will invest in a long term plan as this will increase the demand once the team can finalize more on adoptions which they were working with the banks.