"I have a few questions"

And so it begins thus proving my point. ;-)  This thread was initiated by Dan with the "intent" of providing an answer to those wondering what the status was with regard to emunie.  If I go down the path of answering your "new topic" question then I would only be further proving my point.

This is not meant to side-step your questions, but more a sincere request that you start a "new topic" for your queries as it would ensure we don't pollute the intended goals for this thread.  Moreover, I would have no qualms debating your questions rationally on that "new" thread as I have many reasoned and cogent counterpoints to your assertions, but this thread is not the place for them.

Please let me know when you have started that thread so that I can contribute to the discussion.

All of your recommendations are 'maybe' viable options, but only IF they had been the communication medium from the beginning.  However, switching to them now would invite further confusion among the base of existing users, not to mention the utter chaos and confusion this would present to those with whom we are truly trying to attract:  the average joe (ie. the less than 1% of the world not already part of us crypto-nuts.)

In addition, without a forum where we can express the ideology in a clear and structured manner there would be limited methods at our disposal to ensure no misinformation was presented to the user.  This confusion among new users would only serve to limit wider adoption.  Moreover (and not to denigrate this forum and it's goals), but to have an emunie thread within "bitcoin"-talk would then imply that we are effectively no different from all of the exsting and newly created "bitcoin"-like solutions.  This is absolutely not the message we want to portray.  Same implication with pretty much every other proposed solution (although I do appreciate your providing them as reference).

In the end, the medium of communication is not primarily about being "robust" (although this is important and is being addressed), but more importantly an ideology of having the utmost respect towards the one truly deflationary currency ALL of us have in limited supply:  Time.

Basically, there are many of us that don't have the 12+ hours a day that are often needed to scan, search, hope and pray we can find the "true" answer to our question on a product we decide to spend our 'time currency' on as would be the case with the proposed alternatives.  In addition, once you go down the path of using these alternative mediums it becomes infinitely more difficult with each passing day to migrate back to a more polished and structured environment.  

Not sure about Doge, but even the Nxt 1400+ page thread has recently commented on how challenging it is for them to imagine a way to transition from their "1" hyper-long 1400+ page thread and instead "try to move the conversation back to the structured forum they already have" for Q&A.  Challenging indeed.  Even more challenging for a 'new' user thinking about using Nxt.  

Its much like the restaurant example.  You go out to eat one evening and your considering 2 new restaurants that are side by side with each other. One has a huge amount of people already eating (1400+ pages and growing at the rate of 2+ pages per hour) and one where no one seems to be at all (structured forum).  Which one do you choose?  Oh sure, if you had an infinite amount of time (ie. not really hungry) to research each then you "might" choose the less popular one, but the majority will go "where the action is at".

seriously...dude, wth??  

what has regular email got to do with eMunie being centralized??  

I just want to know what happened with Eid, or why people internally from the project now seem to have less faith in it and calling it centralized etc? Any note on this? Its kind of bad when you own employees / ex-employess / supporters / ex-supporter say its a scam

And how do we manage questions, testing, bug reports etc etc with no community forum or collective organization?

Because if people are emailing me and there is no mail serve, then it will not be delivered nor can I pick it up. So even if I can't reply right away, people will get pissed and it will give a bad impression/create FUD ammo.

So email functional was #1 priority at the time

Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme. (Technically, it's a pump and dump.)

Mt. Gox, with all their withdrawal delays, is probably a Ponzi scheme.

There is no a solution. The scalability issue can't be fixed without a hard fork.

So its your server's and not the web hosting server's that are down?

No, those servers are nothing to do with the client, so we can run without them

But email is pretty crucial as that went down also today, so had to spend time on getting that up again before anything else.

No, just valuable time taken up today dealing the server failures.  Meant I wasn't able to work on getting OB1 ready.

It will continue to be until OB1 is ready, then we will bring the new servers up then.

OB1 is more important.

I will when its up, but not in this thread as hopefully it'll be history soon enough.

These people are WRONG. Long as you can lose all your BTC without any protection and there is no protection on your BTC it will never EVER go mainstream.

You steal my cash, you don't send my product or you hack my bank, I get it all back. FDIC also protects me. BTC has none of that. this is just temporary.

I am not so stupid after all.

Emunie ltd. Or the total capitulation with the governments and laws, the complete surrender. (ripple all over) centralized as hell with only one dictator CEO Dan Hughes.

Like I said they should ban fusseleer for life. He lied from day one more than a year now to dedicated helpers and beta testers that were by his side day in day out, now he stabbing them a knife in the back by solely listing emunie as a company, no need to say all the consequences that come with that.

Dan Hughes in his eyes everyone and everything that don’t share his opinion is retarded looking down on average people, arrogance itself.
I hope for all them who dedicated one year of their life to test and help developing emunie that Hughes gets what he deserves (karma is a bitch you know).