You guys realize Ellaism is adding WebAssembly in a couple months? 
In addition, Ellaism brought the multi-geth client to the greater Ethereum community.

I'd say that's not really a cut and paste coin.

We're launching a #summer-of-code initiative with one of our members leading a series of workshops covering blockchain tech.  It is going to cover the basics and range to some more advanced topics.

The person running it has pulled together some pretty slick tools to manage it all online and live for people around the world.  We'll have more details soon regarding dates and times.

If anyone is curious or interested in possibly joining in, come visit us our discord to get more information.   
https://discordapp.com/invite/gz9tURY

Lots of activity on ELLA's github.  https://github.com/ellaism

I think the toxic breakup and disinformation from that time chased people away from some of the public forums.  It's a shame.

It's still a solid project that's wants to create a community driven alternative to Ethereum.

Yes, I agree there is less random chatter, but if you get involved in the Ellaism project there seems to be so much going on I barely have time to keep up with it all.  There's the weekly dev meetings and tons of activity in the various side channels. 

Personally, I think there is more work getting done behind the scenes and less hype in the general channel.  Long term I think it is going to be good.  We took some steps after that split to create a more professional environment for developers and outside projects. 

Thanks for posting that Zveno.  With so much activity on our Discord, I just don't make it over here as much.

One of our members has started an Ellaism swag store on our Discord, so we're running a few contests over the month of May to give away ELLA bumper stickers and t-shirts.  We have some ELLA coins thrown into the mix as well.  All funds for the giveaway were raised by donations from the community.

This is all just for fun, and a way to thank the community that supports the project.  I still think this is one of the most promising Ethereum projects our there, and we have some exciting developments going forward with the community voting unanimously by carbon vote to implement a hard fork at block number 2000000 to add Ethereum's Byzantium improvements as well as WebAssembly support to Ellaism.

There is a lot of interesting stuff brewing on the Parity side of things as well with I believe native support for an Ellaism branded wallet and I hear rumors of possibly a mobile version. Not to mention Ellaismer built out our multi-Geth client last month with support for Ethereum Classic, Ethereum Social, Ropsten and Rinkeby test networks,  and of course Ellaism.

Overall, Ellaismer has been nothing but dedicated to the success of the project and a very well connected and informed lead dev for us.  Sometimes that gets lost in the noise, but this is a serious and important project for the blockchain space, and a great platform to build upon.

In the end, it is still the only Ethereum based blockchain network with zero pre-mined coins, no ICO, and zero mandatory developer fees-- a project entirely run and supported by volunteers who believe in its importance.

For more information about what is happening, here is the latest monthly community update:
https://ellaism.org/2018/05/05/monthly-update-apr-2018/