I use Tradingview since it also covers other asset classes.

I am also extremly diasspointed with the performance of Kraken. Always down and the problems with the updates. The problem is I am not aware of any decent exchanges were you can trade with Euros, except for sites where you buy at a hefty permium. Any suggestions on alternatives?

Are you guys sure that the hardfork will happen? The website seems pretty inactive to me. For example, where there should be a whitepaper it just says that it will be uploaded soon. If the fork were to happen that soon, I suppose there would be a whitepaper.