What happened with fields?

Hello guys, i am not play a lot of time, and now comeback. So what happened with gathering field? Iam a good farmer and backer, and before iam remember game have more workable places for gathering, now i see minimum half of that. Bad harvest in this year xD? Or something new with updates?
 ps where i can look online status of server? How many people... its really best game on android now, but chat is empty, world is empty.. I belived iam mistaken