So, we’re in May now. Q1 passed a long time ago, and it’s nearly halfway through Q2. What’s happened in ionoland?

Well, not much. Some coins were added to their exchange. They tried to pick up shitcoin refugees from the Steem/Hive split. They made a slightly fancier looking website for gamegrid, but didn’t actually launch it. They hosed their hosted masternode service and replaced them with Sharenodes, which Korvas will no doubt tell you is innovative magic, but actually seemed to annoy some of the few people left in their community a bit - mainly because they didn’t really communicate the change. They did some airdrops. No one really appeared to notice.

The team seemingly gave up on trying to give official updates, and now appear to be relying on a community volunteer to do extremely dull 15 minute YouTube videos every 3-4 weeks so he can talk in an English monotone and bore the 10 or so people left who actually care to death.

Exciting, this ain’t. But it is hilarious. 

There’s no sign of the fork. It was apparently ‘ready’ a few weeks ago, but who knows if that’s ready ready, or ionomy ready, which is to say not really ready at all. Presumably the ‘team’ have been caught in stasis and believe it’s still Q1, or have been rendered entirely unable to reach for their keyboards to keep their almost non existent community up to date. Someone asked outright back at the end of February if the roadmap was still correct, and they were told an unequivocal yes, everything is still correct (though via the proxy of their community liaison). Whereupon Korvas eagerly rubbed his hands together and exclaimed that it was going to be a busy 5 weeks but, gee wizz, he just couldn’t wait for all those years of work to come to fruition. Or something. Probably.

Ignoring the fact that the roadmap was already behind by that point anyway, if this malarkey doesn’t demonstrate that this team can’t project manage or even communicate for toffee, I don’t know what does.

So will they ever fork? Who knows. But I’m damn sure almost no one cares at this point.