So reading the chat logs, one of the things the dev has mentioned a few times is that he'd like to see the volume of Qora go up. Now, volume as displayed on the exchanges has always irritated me as it really doesn't show activity as it's tied to the price of the coin. A higher priced coin can look like it's got great activity, but that can simply not be true. So I just pulled some data from Bter for the last 24 hours to have a look at things. This is only for BTC trades.
This is where Qora stands in terms of purely the number of coins traded. It's #3. Not sure what's going on with NFD, looks like there was a dump that has loosened up the market.
    Pair     Name                       Supply       Traded     S/T%
1.  nfd_btc  NFD                 5,000,000,000  103,028,670   2.061%
2.  doge_btc DogeCoin           89,148,800,000   57,062,875   0.064%
3.  qora_btc Qora               10,000,000,000   27,734,604   0.277%
4.  mint_btc MintCoin           19,581,400,000    7,515,133   0.038%
5.  ntx_btc  nTx                 1,000,000,000    5,549,981   0.555%
6.  nas_btc  nas                10,000,000,000    2,011,643   0.020%
7.  nxt_btc  Nxt                 1,000,000,000    1,715,661   0.172%
8.  btsx_btc BitSharesX          2,000,000,000    1,697,993   0.085%
9.  comm_btc CommunityCoin         851,166,000    1,198,583   0.141%
10. xcr_btc  Crypti                100,000,000      955,471   0.955%
Course number of coins still doesn't mean much. So this one shows the actualy number of coins traded as a percentage of the supply. Qora is #9. But consider that something happened with NFD today and that Cryptonite and Crypti are new on Bter so there's going to be more activity on them than what would end up being typical for them.
    Pair     Name                       Supply       Traded     S/T%
1.  xcn_btc  Cryptonite              4,298,010      683,339  15.899%
2.  rox_btc  RoxCoin                 4,500,000      312,758   6.950%
3.  dtc_btc  DataCoin                4,985,260      136,908   2.746%
4.  nfd_btc  NFD                 5,000,000,000  103,028,670   2.061%
5.  flt_btc  FlutterCoin            47,401,000      617,820   1.303%
6.  xcr_btc  Crypti                100,000,000      955,471   0.955%
7.  ntx_btc  nTx                 1,000,000,000    5,549,981   0.555%
8.  cdc_btc  CloudCoin               8,694,190       26,019   0.299%
9.  qora_btc Qora               10,000,000,000   27,734,604   0.277%
10. aur_btc  Auroracoin              1,672,300        4,306   0.257%
So it seems to me that Qora is pretty healthy in terms of actual trading activity. So really, it comes down to price and the biggest issue from what I've been seeing is a completely lack of "news" despite that fact that there has been progress over the last couple weeks.
Should note that I'm not sure about the accuracy of the Bter data. Couple days ago it was showing a trade from July in "recent trades" for Qora. Could be related to them introducing load balancing on the public api and maybe they're still working out sync issues.