A coin relies on 3 things: the specs, the dev's, the community. They all have to work.

Right now the biggest issue is dev's not communicating enough with the community and in a positive way.

On the other hand mintcoin is still very young and programmers aren't known for their high social/PR skills, maybe we should just leave them alone for a few months and who knows they will surprise the community. And if not well that would suck but we made the gamble on mint without anyone forcing us.

I'm going to be in lurking mode for the upcoming weeks and look how things develop, good luck everyone