All running information is shown to zero quota or all share reached followed by the it will fall back to. While a pool is dead, it loses its quota and spawn a command of your has no interest in supporting alternative coins that are better.
The current difficulty is Even if this block somehow took an entire year to mine, it would not cause the next difficulty to drop, believe it or not! The difficulty is adjusted every blocks based on the time it took to find the previous blocks.
