Can someone explain whether anything is wrong with hardfork!
Is it successful or not?

Successful.

There's actually a thread dedicated to that topic, and hence no need to raise it here:
https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/1125666.new

It took 2 days for me.
2 days of continuous thrashing of the HDD.
Obviously we need an SSD...

FWIW, a couple years old i7 w/SSD, 8GB RAM and 100Mbps connection, took me a few minutes shy of 2 hours to sync from scratch last night. I deleted my older appdata folder & skipped the db conversion as that felt like it would wear the SSD at lot more than a plain re-sync.

As always, great work from everyone that contributed to this release.
Thank you guys for what you all do for Monero and this community.

Happy forking gents! 

24% reduction is pretty significant in my opinion.

After reading a few posts I somehow expected something near 40-50%.
But it's OK, you are right.
The even better news for me are that lately the sync is much faster and the daemon doesn't need so much time to start or save+close.

Hey Guys, just started using xmr and have an issue I hope someone can help me out with. Ok I opened a Web wallet at my monero and have made numerous buys using bitcoin and shapeshift with no problems. I also installed v.10 node and simple wallet on my laptop and have transferred from my monero to my wallet on the laptop also with no problem. Now I tried to go directly from BTC-->shapeshift-->simple wallet. Everything seemed to go throught, shapeshift says it's all done but nothing shows up in simple wallet, no pending, balance and locked balance haven't changed, refreshed many times also and no TXID. The only thing I did different with shapeshift is I didn't put a payment ID since the user guide stated I didn't need to do this if I own the address. I did this going from my monero and simple wallet and it workout fine. I'm really hoping it's not the payment ID since I heard it could be lost forever if that the case. Can anyone offer some advise other than contact shapeshift?  Thanks in advance.

Thank You, I did send an email the shapeshift and was hoping it is just a delay. So I'll sit tight and see what happens. Thanks again.