i would like to propose a conspiracy theory here. could it be that TFT and friends created a problem where there was non, as they see the coin going up in popularity and thus limit ability for people to mine or participate.
1. yes mining continued: is this true can a non techy very this
2. increased frustration: people may hold of mining while a better wallet is in place. thus decreasing difficulty and increasing coin accumulation of those in the know.
3. a day later and still unable to access wallet from first page. people are pointed to github but I do not see a link there that says updated wallet. click here and your parse problems will be solved.
would tft go to such an extreme.... just speculating.
1) I did find a block during the whole debacle with the merged block entering the chain.
2) This is the case with any coin. The people who know how to code can create their own optimized miners for CPU or GPU. Its just the way it is for now. Bitcoin went through all of that, the final solution being ASICS. New stuff is much more fun to mine.
3) There is another link just above to a dropbox where you can download the new version.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lcjr6fkkbtf4tse/MRO%20Windows%20Binaries.zip