So how is Nem's popularity at the moment?

205k views on this thread and we have not even launched yet.

I think the thread will explode once we launch.

Try to read whitepaper

The fee will be decreased within a 4 trimester plan:
1st trimester: 0.35%
2nd trimester: 0.25%
3rd trimester: 0.15%
4th trimester: 0.1% - fixed, but not less than 0.0001.

This is false.  The market is not selling because they are disappointed in the whitepaper.  Since trading has opened, the VAST majority of sell orders have been very close to 600k...the size of a stake.  This means that the early bird investor dumping stage is not yet over.  It's certainly understandable given how many got one for next to nothing (or completely free).  In fact, considering how many are dumping, the price is actually holding up remarkably well.  Don't forget also that Bter is a site primarily used by the Chinese market, and a TON of Chinese investors are liquidating their assets to invest in the Alibaba IPO.  And for goodness sake, it's been less than 48 hours since Bittrex even SUGGESTED they were interested in NODE! Do you think coins get added overnight?  Give it some time.  It is supposedly also being added to Poloniex.  Those will be huge boosts to NODE and bring in a whole new audience that has yet to discover it. Nobody can predict how long it will take the early investor dumpers to exhaust their supply, but look at how strong our community is already in such a short time.  Look at the sites that want to add NODE already.  Look at the solid communication the devs have shown already.  If NODE can come this far in such a short time, we have a very bright future to look forward to.

where's the whitepaper?

Massive crowd agglutinating in Kiev for node whitepaper release, look at tv news