So I just noticed something. I've been wondering what the sudden crashes are in the User Stats and just witnessed one, and not so coincidentally we switched from dogecoin to digitalcoin. This explains a lot because as soon as my miners detected a drop in connection they would hunt for an 'alive' pool and start mining there. Then they would switch back after some time after they detected switchercoin was stable again. We've been switching coins a lot lately which is great but it meant my miners were constantly switching between pools and it made my graphs look all spikey like conspirospheretk. I turned off my failover switch last night and the graphs look much nicer. I still get the drops when we switch coins but there is no longer much downtime. It looks like it takes a while for hash rates to get back up but I think that's a function of the graphs being some kind of running average. My miners don't stop mining and the rewards are based on shares not what the graph looks like.
The much bigger problem is the amount of miners we lost when a switch happens. During this last switch we lost 500 MH/s, down from 2000 to 1500. I'm betting it's because these people have their failover set to true and the failover time is too small so by the time switchercoin becomes stable again, the miners have already moved on. Bortmehanic, I don't know how you can fix this except somehow speed up the switching, which I know nothing about, but maybe you should put some kind of disclaimer at the home page to set the failover time longer than 60 seconds or whatever fix in our config files would work.
As far as payments, it doesn't really bother me if I get paid at .567 LTC or 1.134 LTC as long as I get paid for my shares, which I seem to be. If you're paying attention to your payments coming in and looking at the transaction history then you know you're getting paid. I understand some of you like to get paid quickly but there is some bottleneck in the process somewhere. I'm sure they're working on it. It's worth it for me to stick with this pool because of the amount of time I save otherwise trading the coins myself on some exchange.
yeah im noticing this as well, huge spikes as it switches
i keen to support the pool but might consider something more solid and constant
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