Disregarding it's other issues I found using Ripple with Ripple Desktop Wallet to be the smoothest fastest experience. I really liked it. I loved how fast it was, how nicely the wallet was to use, how cheap it was to send and receive. Shame.

I left a bunch in there for weeks until i gave up and moved it on as the gains it would have to make to make up for the loss taken by not using it elsewhere was too large for me to care anymore if I "missed" it moon making it a far more risky investment given there was a question it might ever