for info, my wallet (v1.2) is synced (now at 907818 blocks, 540 MB) with 5 connections, I used all the nodes indicated on this thread:

addnode=45.62.252.164
addnode=64.137.199.69
addnode=45.62.245.25
addnode=64.137.211.114
addnode=64.137.219.169
addnode=85.214.205.16
addnode=104.197.48.111
addnode=104.236.249.42
addnode=64.137.233.165
addnode=138.201.90.37
addnode=85.214.205.16
addnode=63.142.253.65

did some mining at mineyourcoins.com (but manage to mine only 1 coin after few hours of mining even though using gpu mining)

coinexchange.io is in "maintenance mode" (can't deposit or withdraw but can trade), their wallet no active peers

metacoin.gdn could not be accessed (error: server IP address could not be found)