Thanks very much for your response, completely understand from this and your other post earlier that bandwidth is limited and things have to be prioritised. The fact that the community seems to believe in (and care very deeply about) Digibyte is a really good sign. I look forward to following its development.

Hi, I've just started looking into this coin a couple of days ago, and wanted to give some impressions based on the point of view of an outsider looking into getting into it. I know the coin is really in it's infancy (although making it this far is impressive,) but there are quite a few things about the way the entire project looks at the moment that give cause for concern, especially for someone just looking into it. Just for disclosure, I don't really care about short term price fluctuations, especially while the coin is worth a faction of a cent. I'm more concerned with the long-term viability/adaption of the technology and whether the stated $1-$10 long-term price is in any way realistic.

First, the good:

-The technology seems very good, it seems to address all of the major shortcomings of bitcoin (mostly transaction times and miners becoming too powerful), through multiple mining algorithms and shorter block times.
-Many techs included within DGB that have been picked up by other coins, indicating that the devs know what they're doing
-I've read a lot about how the developers are dedicated to the technology and have stuck with it over time, wanting to see it widely adopted (as opposed to pump-and-dump) (although some of this flies in the face of some evidence, stated below)
-There are attempts to have DGB adopted as a 'gamer currency', which is probably as good a place as any to start gaining some traction, provided it's implemented properly.
-Still profitable to mine with GPUs, even at with current prices
-Active mining pools, with a few large GH types pointed at them at the moment.
-Still here after several years, while many shitcoins have come and gone.

And now, the bad:

-There doesn't appear to have been any serious activity in Github for a couple of months now.. I keep hearing about how active and dedicated the development team is, so is the apparent lack of development just a temporary post-release thing or is it something deeper?
-Some really instantly obvious bugs in the client (like the sync time remaining showing several years)... Not that this is necessarily a major issue but it doesn't leave a good impression, especially for a currency that wants to appeal to the masses.
-Stuff left outstanding on the repository that certainly doesn't demonstrate any care of the part of the developers, for instance the 'DigiByte vs DigiByte' paragraph on the README.md which is supposed to be about DigiByte vs. Bitcoin is big obvious front-facing error that was even pointed out in the github bugs a couple of months ago.. and weren't responded to or the issue addressed.
-On that note, there seems to be a lack of 'thin' wallets, meaning anyone wanting to hold essentially needs to run a full node.. there appears to have been one light 'gamer wallet' which was apparently pulled for being buggy. Of course these would appear if the currency took off in any way, which is a chicken and egg thing, I suppose.
-No Wikipedia page to speak of (just gives the impression this is not a real thing)
-Some reports on Reddit about Digibyte gaming being more or less unusable, people losing coins, etc... This is supposed to be a flagship application of the currency but it's obviously there yet.
-There seems to be quite a bit of hype around Minecraft integration, but there is no deal whatsoever with Mojang or Microsoft to justify this, just plans for a private server which gives out DGB.. not that this isn't an interesting project but it's pure speculation as to whether it will take off or receive sufficient attention to make it a factor, especially given there's no official sponsorship of it, or for any other games for that matter.
-I'd have some concerns about the potential size of the blockchain, especially if/when it gains more general adoption.

Again, this is not meant to criticise anyone or nit-pick, I have no idea what the size of the development team is or how well resourced it is, and understand it's early days, things are in their infancy, there's a lot of work to be done, etc. I'm just giving an honest opinions of the findings from someone who's coming into this fresh and deciding whether it's worth getting involved. Also happy to be corrected on any of the points above if I've got them wrong or missed things (likely)