Have no mercy. It's in all of our interests!
An excellent Dev Team in almost every category (Technical Skills, Implementation, Communication / PR, Long Term Vision), with an excellent community in almost every category as well (Diversity, Open Debate, OS Commitment, 3rd Party Initiatives), phenomenal technical robustness (Security, Widely Distributed, Decentralized, Operational Speed)
1) There is no Dev Team, there is one developer and as awesome as he might be, hes on a spring break atm.
There is no communication, no PR for the last one and a half years, Long Term goals can be outlined as "survive as long as possible"
2) The "community", nowadays, represents about 20 people on reddit and a couple more in here. There is this other forum nobody ever visits and there you can see the same 20-30 people from reddit and bct posting a line every month. Im not even gonna mention some of the projects in the past that got back-burned by that same "excellent" community
3) Compared to an year ago, VTC is now an old timer, with no technical development or innovations whatsoever. Some time ago we had 25-30% P2P mining network, solo/p2p mining incentives, test layer coin, stealth addresses and lots and lots of dreams about decentralization. Now we have Lyra2RE whit a shitty kernel and a heaven for botnets, no test layer coin, no p2p mining and no dreams and aspirations.
Your report about VTC might have been true, if you had written it 1 year ago