Has anyone managed to talk to the dev team? They clearly still post updates and latest release was just a couple months ago but outside of what they post on the site sometimes they seem rather quiet about the project.
Several of our developers (myself included) are easy to talk to on IRC (
https://www.namecoin.org/resources/chat/ ). Not really sure how or when you were trying to contact us, but you posted that right around the time that I was on partial sick leave, so maybe that was a factor. I definitely try to be approachable (and I don't think I do *too* bad a job at this), but at the same time, if I were spending all my time answering questions on all platforms where people could conceivably try to talk to me, I wouldn't have any time left to write code. IRC is pretty low-friction and has a decent SNR, so it's probably the best place to ask questions if you want a quick answer from me.
Would be nice if they could address why NMC is not being carried on any major exchanges. If we can get it listed on one of the non-chicom trading sites I suspect we'd witness a major spike in market cap. Maybe they don't want this yet but the project's over 10 years old no?
I'm going to have to agree with BayAreaCoins on this: I'd rather spend my time making Namecoin itself bigger, so that exchanges want to add Namecoin of their own accord.
Meanwhile, we released Electrum-NMC v4.0.0b0:
https://www.namecoin.org/2021/12/17/electrum-nmc-v4.0.0b0-released.htmlAnd in particular, this release contains a nice new security enhancement by Yanmaani, which he also upstreamed to Electrum:
https://www.namecoin.org/2022/01/07/unix-domain-sockets-in-electrum.html