Not really vert related but I finished reading up on the DRK thread.
One thing that really rings alarm bells to me is the level of blind faith and expectation they have on their developer. Its scary. They seem to be idolizing him like a prophet that has arisen to show them all towards the light. Having such a high profile single point of failure is a strong warning sign. Im not knocking him or his coin he has brought it a long way, but some of the members over there seem to be overcome with irrational exuberance. when they start posting his time zone, suggesting he gives his telephone number out to certain members on the thread so they can check up on him, speculating if he is asleep or not, talking about his social life and schedule...its just...wrong on many levels. It cant end well.
Well, back in february people were like "Evan is working his ass of to make us rich"... and he did make them rich. So a lot of people owe gratitude, in a sense, because he took their money to 15-1000x levels.
If you finished the thread you probably saw that some people were trolling* with like "oohhh where is the dev" to spread uncertainty, when clearly it was 5am in Arizona and the dev was asleep, so...
What most realize, and comment on, is that he is stretched thin... The community understands as well that he is put into a spotlight that he shouldn't be in, due to the price increase when the "product" is still in beta/rc phase and not final and some having unrealistic expectations. Nobody cared about the prior 10-15 forks of DRK, but suddenly everybody does because there's a lot at stake. Suddenly "he failed" , "he fucked up" etc etc because of the buggy behavior of the masternode election system when much bigger issues have been dealt with in the past (darksend's first implementation in February was DOA due to DDOS issues and had to be altered to be DDOS-hardened in order to play). But who cared when the price was 0.0002? Nobody.
* Trolling in the DRK thread has gone to another level. Trolls open account, troll, then close the account and say ok, enough trolling with this, I'll open a new one. Some openly admit they are getting paid to troll DRK. It was a total troll-fest yesterday.