So, to clarify as I've not been following this closely (working on other stuff), has this coin gone through 3 blockchains since public launch?

My first coins were lost in the early days (post public launch) now I've got 7k coins unconfirmed and only 2k confirmed.

Was it the pools that didn't respond to let the dev know they'd switched and the dev went for a fork anyway or what the hell's happened?

nvm, I can see the pools have been switching between different chains as I've got occasional coins on the latest chain but 3 wallet restarts (for a fresh chain download) connected to 3 different chains each stopping at different points (without using conf file for addnodes).

What an utter mess. Ah well, take a risk with a new coin, maybe you'll win, maybe you'll lose.
With this one, I lost