I usually follow Discord because there are some with powers on Github.
The good thing is that we still have 10-11 peers.
Have you seen that the Bittrex wallet still has more than 39 MM XEL, and that almost every day there are transfers, despite the fact that the withdrawal period ended 2 months ago?

https://explorer.xel.org/address/XEL-AQVJ-PPCK-QJYJ-8T65V/