Lets see what comes about here...
It seems not much is happening here. This is sad, but was to be expected.
Well, the explorer at https://explorer.8bit.cash is currently generating an index of the last five years so this coin will at least have a tool for checking transactions.
Will take some time until complete, maybe a week or so.
8BIT chain is huge, so a week or two is indeed realistic expectation, depending on the power of VPS you use
As to not much happening - yes, the community here is beat-up a bit, and many people check the thread rarely (as nothing happened for very long time). Also there is a general problem with Bitcointalk being gradually abandoned by its old community
. I see many older members not logging in anymore, or checking rarely but not posting. The troll attacks on Bitcointalk scared away most of its old members - those who actually made it great once. There are some steps from Theymos to improve this, lets see how it goes. In any case, with current state, it could take weeks or even months to spark up an interest. I'll try to ping few of the older members who were really helping in the past. Please just don't give up. I don't really know what keeps me on this coin, and why I really like it, but I do (as crazy as it seems - "liking a coin" sounds ... strange
), and I am sure I am not the only one. Slow and steady wins the race 
No, I won't give up on this coin. At least not that easily. Of course everyone has an individual "deadline" so in the end it'll really depend on more than one person if something like a crypto project should have a future or not.
So far my only motivation to complete previous tasks was a simple curiosity to see "if I can make it".
Cheers,