@EleanorZ Im not an official PIVX but do try and post here to help with communicating with those who dont use discord or twitter or reddit. I do think Discord is the best place to go for updates info and support issues and questions.
I believe there was plenty of clear posts in here regarding the update as being mandatory so should be no excuse to not be done, if any user still didnt get the message someone should be able to help in discord on getting an up to date blockchain or resybcing again.
Also if not aware Ledger hardware wallet is having issues with PIVX but they are working on it , the desktop wallet and blockchain is working fine, just an issue with ledger.
Yes and we thank you.
But I do believe discord is a poor choice as it's a hugbox/echochamber; the only people going there are the ones looking to talk about PIVX. No strangers just popping in and you can't really be very critical and argue about anything that's unpopular as you'll go against the tide and lose. I believe the main channel of communication should be a neutral source, like this forum. It's also a PITA to search for stuff on discord (very high noise to signal ratio) and the search function is pretty bad as well imo. But I also understand the majority of people doesn't share the same opinion as me.
Maybe meeting halfway would be good; as in having a bot that posts all the semi-important announcements to all channels.
On another note, staking zPIV results in about ~50-60% orphan rate so currently staking regular PIV is a better option profit-wise but collectively staking zPIV probably provides more information helping to find the cause.
What I do know for sure after testing that it's not a computational power bottleneck and I believe it's also not a network bottleneck.