There's no wallet.dat with Shift. You gain access to your wallet through your passphrase (ie your wallet IS your passphrase), either with the webwallet, the desktop wallet or by running a node. Fore more security, it is recommended to setup a second passphrase.
1st passphrase only => wallet access, send coins and vote.
1st + 2nd passphrase => 1st=wallet access, 2nd=send coins and vote

Please don't spread FUD. People come and go, this is the normal life of a project. We thank Jan and seatrips for their contribution, and we regret that it has to end like this. The main contributors are still working hard on making the new Web a reality, and at least one new dev is getting onboard, which will be announced soon.

You can expect all that for Q3, but this is rough estimation.
Also keep in mind that we tend to avoid giving firm dates because people use it to buy the rumour and sell the news. Follow our social accounts to get most up to date info, and you might be the first ones to know...

https://twitter.com/ShiftNrg
https://www.facebook.com/ShiftNrg
https://shiftnrg.ryver.com/ (Register here: https://shiftnrg.ryver.com/application/signup/members/Q3vvIv5azjNuFKl )
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShiftNrg/

Sorry, it's me, I've seen the @team and thought you were the other one... As you can guess, we have the easy trigger now. I'm unbanning you

I quickly looked at their website, and Blockstack needs a proprietary browser.

Shift runs in your current browser:
https://gateway.shiftnrg.org/ipfs/QmRm6bzVH7bebHCgjFu18cMNKsPMYyDcVR3u8Pp2RzgpMC/

Shift is ready for mass adoption.

No Discord, but https://shiftnrg.ryver.com/ (register here https://shiftnrg.ryver.com/application/signup/members/Q3vvIv5azjNuFKl )

We have been on Slack in the past, and moved to Ryver because it's better on various aspects.

As for the news, we invite you to read our newsletter every month (or to join our Ryver for more informal hints at the future).
https://www.shiftnrg.org/newsletter/

It's ryver:
https://shiftnrg.ryver.com/
https://shiftnrg.ryver.com/application/signup/members/Q3vvIv5azjNuFKl

Good to hear, and welcome to our chat!

It is indeed important to know what's going on, so that it doesn't happen to other users.
First, connect@shiftnrg.org is no longer used since it was former team member crush and he's now m.i.a.

We have resent the invite manually, so check out your mailbox again.
 
If other users have a problem, let us know. It seems a lot of other users got stuck, but it's a ryver issue rather than our fault. Sorry for the inconvenience anyway.

What is the link you used?
This one? https://shiftnrg.ryver.com/application/signup/members/Q3vvIv5azjNuFKl

1-Market decides, but Shift is having a steady rise, which is more sane than artificial pumps.
2-Shift is actually the first Ethereum fork in history, and shifted to Lisk codebase last year, because the network didn't have enough hashrate to resist 51% attacks it was victim of. It is not the first Lisk fork in history though, but one of the few successful along with Ark.

For that you have to run a node https://github.com/ShiftNrg/shift

For now, the focus is to bring a decentralized hosting solution in parallel of a decentralized application platform. With IPFS, you can pin content that you want to see hosted forever. Eventually, the idea of SHIFT is to reward those who pin content for others, be it with new tokens created by Dapp creators -preferably- or with SHIFT by the Shift team. That is the blooming of Web 3.0 with an ecosystem built in from the get go, which SHIFT is the spearhead of. No single point of failure, freedom of creation, built-in payment system.

SHIFT https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1155284.0

https://shiftnrg.ryver.com/application/signup/members/Q3vvIv5azjNuFKl
(it's in OP by the way)

It's also on Livecoin https://www.livecoin.net/trade/index?currencyPair=SHIFT%2FBTC
and Bitsquare (decentralized exchange) too.

Yes, https://www.shiftnrg.org/roadmap/

The lotto is still active indeed, but it is a side project from team members, not a project from the team as a whole.

Great job, keep them coming!