Already darkcoin forks popping up, if darkcoin wants to be a success there has to be more innovation ^^.
More innovation? You mean like the DGW, that was implemented literally a few minutes ago?
Yes, darkcoin has good potential but innovations have to keep coming, otherwise others will do.
PS: my P2P node at stratum+tcp://62.141.39.175:7903 is updated in just a minute