As for celebrating a Bortday the Mastercoin, I expect more words from the Foundation. Who cares about the number of FB members.
Now some irrational emotion driven rants from an early investor (and PoW of a dumb user), if anyone cares:
1. Price is down.
2. Price is down like hell, closing pre-IPO. That hurts.
3. Price is down. I'm checking the blog: some nice activity and anouncements of Mastercore and Omniwallet for the first of August. Good, price creeps up just a tiny bit.
4. First of Aug. No announcement, really?
5. Second of Aug. Price is down, like pre-IPO. Of course, what do you expect. People start to ask, finally mastercore 0.0.6 (seems a bit of a way to go up, like two more years to reach 0.7?) But I'm just a dumb user, who knows what these developers are thinking). But wait, no Windows version? Really? The anouncement means nothing to me. Price is down.
6. Oh, Ron signs off. Good. Started to hate this guy. Nothing personal, it's just money lost. And lots of it. So I cannot force myself to believe he did something good for the Mastercoin, even if he tried - price is still down. Creeps up a bit after Rons resignation though.
7. Omniwallet looks quite good, changelog is moving up every day. But wait, it works only on Chrome, and I don't use it. Probably my fault, who knows those developers... And what does the "next milestone 0.16" mean anyway? Is it going to be usable finally? Can I finally tell my friend, a stock daytrader, who lost a fortune with MtGox, that he can finally store some mastercoins on his PC? Maybe he would buy some. Not yet?
8. Price is down. I check the Mastercoin dev forums. It used to be more activity a few months ago. Where is J.R. anyway? I hope his baby is alright. Besides that, should I also start to hate this guy too? He sold bunch of MSC in what seems to be a hurry, to get a full-time on the project. And to me the "full-time" somehow means some community noticeable activity every few days. Especially, especially, when things are down. An anouncement of "buying the MSC back", doesn't look that good with all this history, ask your marketing consultant. Some words on Mastercoin birthday would be nice. J.R, you were a pioneer starting all this 2.0 a year ago, push it up, people may like that.
9. I still check the bitcointalk Mastercoin thread mostly. To me, besides the trolls and a couple of dumbasses, it's the best health indicator on the project. And now I can't get rid of a feeling Foundation only starts to answer only when people ask for updates. Last month was so quiet everywhere. Is it because of summer?
10. Price is down. This is important. Because there are alternatives. And that's why the price is down. Admit that and contemplate on it. It was the soviets, who used to deny all the nasty things.
11. Besides all that, I still believe in the project. Could be because I like the people who started it. I even buy the optimism of the Foundation, though I sometimes hate these half-assed cheerful blog announcements.