The number of nodes is not a reliable metric. I've said this a number of times. This statement is especially valid when one is pulling up data from a very short period of time. If you look at a longer time period you would get the 'real' number of nodes which has been slowly declining.
What will be next? My vote for a cooler name is Bitcoin Reloaded.
I would not be surprised if it was something in the lines of 'Bitcoin Original'.
What's that about sig restrictions in classic? that looks like a backward step.
A bad workaround to the quadratic scaling problem. Segwit provides an actual solution to this.