Well on the plus side, segwit seems to be going live before the end of august.

The hard-fork thing is still up in the air, we'll just have to wait and see. As far as I know, nothing has been released or coded to do the roll-out of the fork. I do agree that the fork was my biggest problem with the whole discussion. It would be pretty stupid if they did not take heed from the eth-dao-disaster. But so far the threats should be clear to everybody, but no way they can code the solution before november. So lets hope that the miners understand it needs more than just small change in the code and don't do a eth-style messed up rush job.

I found this youtube video informative as well, and funny: