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Might be worth thinking more outside the forum etc. Have an email signup on the site (using aweber or getresponse) for people to signup to get the latest info via emails etc. Try and send out a weekly or bi monthly update etc. Course, might be harder now to get people to signup than if you had started closer to the beginning. Nice to see a coin that's been around for a long time and is still being worked on though.

We have those things on frankos.org already. I think our mailing list is up to about 600. We normally do a newsletter about once month. Or around every important announcement.

Does it? I couldn't find any place to signup with email. Maybe I'm just blind as I'm used to "in your face" stuff from the internet marketing world. Might want to give things a once over as well. The "Getting Started" link is 404 on myfirstfranko, that site has some images missing, and the faucet (I assume it was the original one) is gone (there is another one listed on myfirstfranko though). Can't seem to open frankopedia either but that could just be a temporary thing.

Maybe some folks have taken down their server. I'll get it all back up and redo the site. Its about time for it anyways ^_^

Franko is well active. Anyway when we see a lot of nonsense posts added every day on lately added coins. And a lot of broken development on other coins, that are more scam features than something really useful. I think that the back to basics idiom for a cryptocurrency is an important strategy. Anyway there is always other matters to talk about.

I agree with you.

2014 is a bad year for mature alternates; I still trust in fair coins, and Franko was well launched; and everything is fine since the beginning.

We see all around a bad game with scam operations every week. We may hope that people will check carefully what they are doing. Franko is trustworthy, something more and more difficult to find around us.

I think its intentional, some group of people are intentionally whoring the scammiest of the scammy coins to damage the altcoin rep. Its obvious when you follow the volume at exchanges. Any exchange willing to cater to the destruction of altcoins reputation will be rewarded with volume. Any exchange that has decided to be more choosy with who they add have lost nearly all of the volume they once had. I predict there will be a great return to time proven alternatives.

Altcoins reputation is at stake, and a lot of people who try lately these high volume operation were scammed. Indeed pump and dump operations can be so easily done, on a new, and fresh coin. A group controlling the coin itself, and some large farms, and who are sure that the coin will be quickly added to an exchange. But, anyway such an operation is only a scam. And the large volume is initiated at the beginning by the group itself. The exchange is involved in a way or another, these operations are not legit...

To overcome the issues we are facing there is only one option. Going back to basics of cryptocurrencies, anyway lately we had a lot of scams operations, this impact good cryptos like Franko, trust is an important matter here.

We also faced huge dump operations in 2014; these operations were massive, and driven by multipools and huge farms. Anyway now this is not profitable at all, we may expect that some of these operators will definitely stop, and in a near future, they will be replaced by wiser ones, Anyway all now is a matter of patience.

The situation may recover in the months to come. A lot of people have learn from their mistakes; and a good coin is always positive.