Namecoin was a big deal back in the day, I mined it regularly alongside the BTC and collected mine for its future usage for a long time.  Shame it never took off as it had a solid basis as an altcoin.   Its best not to have project reliant on personalities especially but open development, this always seems to happen that the details can snag it and keep it from full usage by anyone.  I dont see that non public or semi public websites must be criminal, it can just be an independant route and part of the redundancy to the internet >

I cannot but agree with OP, the are big issues here because there's not really any team behind the project, just a loose cooperation between people interested in NMC from a technical point of view.

I always thought however that this was going on as a secret coordinated manouver over the years to crash the price so someone could buy cheap Namecoins. But turns out it's just laziness. As a example, bitinfocharts stopped suporting for Namecoin graphs, many exchanges delisted etc. All because they can't contact anyone to get help in updating NMC.

About JR: This guy have the same problem than Greta. He can focus on one subject but can't social.(Aspergers) Also he's just a self-teached programmer.

A message to JR: Let more people critizice and join the team. Let people do things.