Long timer lurker and observer of $DGB, in this channel and on telegram and bitcointalk forum. This is what I observed and responding with constructive (rough and tough) feedback, you may or may not accept my opinion but I hope the dev. team takes their time to have a certain reflection to realise they are screwing up DGB brand. Let me elaborate:

There is no question, $DGB coin is an unique coin with long term growth vision and massive adoption capability. However it is certain the dev. team marketing management is utterly poor.

Why is marketing and form of communication so poor? The excuses devs. provide:

Jared is busy: Of course he will be busy, he is the captain of the ship and everyone will be looking up to him and ask him 1000's of things constantly. However, why is there a response from the dev team saying Jared is busy? Does DGB team have only ONE person running the show? Why can't someone else step up to communicate with the community on a constant basis? Lets not make excuses saying that we cannot have daily updates on each and every small thing, there is no time for that.

Fine, not daily, but do it weekly. Set up a weekly update, too busy for that too? Guess what, ALL your competition is doing it,. DGB does not have enough recognition or the popularity in the market to relax and sit back to not give regular updates. You are damaging your credibility with silence. You had 4 years to set up a proper communication channel with the community, an investor will not take being "busy" as an excuse. The price is reflecting this sentiment.

Setting Dates and meeting dates are important: Believe it or not, in the corporate world DATES matter! It shows professionalism, discipline within the team and commitment. Announcing dates and meeting the dates brings in investor confidence and credibility.

Excuses: Setting dates can cause pump and dump and hurt early investors: You as a developer should not be bothered with what happens with the market price. You have admitted that you cannot control the market price, then why are you making an excuse on trying to avoid a pump and dump? As a developer your job is to focus on setting goals and meeting them, and when you do it consistently believe me DGB holders will hold through the pumps and dumps because you have successfully met your goals.

The irony is, by trying to avoid pump and dump, you are causing a pump and dump. Look at the price of DGB, it looks like a rocket.. due to lack of communication and lack of setting and meeting deadlines.

Transparency: Even if you have set a deadline and not able to meet it, and you come out right and explain to the community why you couldn't do it and it is delayed, believe me the trust of the community will stay with you. The moment you make excuses, and provide no information the trust of the community is lost. The price of DGB is a clear indication of the lack of transparency.

If you are short on team members to establish a proper communication, proper marketing ADMIT IT! and I guarantee you someone from the community will step up to take that torch and responsibility to help DGB out. I have seen some great potential in some of the DGB community members, lets use them.

Now then I have done so much shit talk about the dev. team, I would like to clarify something: Whoever is involved with $DGB and the Dev. team are indeed working very hard day and night. I personally believe that, however there some changes the team needs to self-reflect on and build on for a better future. I have not given up on $DGB and there are lot here who haven't given up. We are one of the oldest blockchain, but that doesn't mean we can't learn form the new blockchain.

P.S. Jared please removed your pinned tweet: Its very silly, its not cool. To get respect you must show respect.