Hey dude, Ripple is now around $2.20, a huge increase since OP wrote this topic. I'm sure there's a lot of good news from Ripple because it was able to raise the price of Ripple coins to above $2 in just a few weeks.
Ripple has many communities that support it but on the other hand there are also many who hate it because Ripple is a centralized coin, for me it depends on where they want to invest it is up to them including this Ripple coin. For me Ripple is a coin that tends to be very slow to rise and this time I saw the Ripple coin rise so fast.