In any case, do we have a hardfork about to occur? Also, where can we find some data on Aeon's hashrate?
There is no hardfork planned at this time.
Explorers are listed on the web site and will show estimated hash rate, but of course that is always an imperfect estimate.
Aeon victim of an attack ?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Aeon/comments/fwffv6/puemp_eet/
Difficulty going up when people start mining isn't really an attack but it can still be annoying when it takes a long time to come back down. Anyway, it did come back down, and everything is working fine now. I have some ideas how to improve this so maybe in a future update it can be.
Yes please elaborate since it’s been a known issue for at least 3 years now.