I'm a dev too and I totally understand it. The most of the projects I've been involved in have an additional layer/s between devs and users.
Don't know about the majority of devs but I think we generally don't talk things, we do things.

g8tguy, why did u delete the message in which you were saying that bittrex told you the aeon wallet will be up again in about two days?

You can take some things into consideration(as network hash rate over time) but you'll have to decide for yourself and not be totally influenced by some forum comments.
Two questions that I have for when deposits will be reactivated on bittrex:
1. Will there be a a lot of deposits by miners willing to sell cheap and fast?
2. Is this going to be seen as things coming to "normal" and more big investors will show interest?

Nice to share your feelings but do we have more than that?
I'm new on crypto-coins, it is the only pool where I mine and I'm more than interested.

For me the Pool Blocks tab it's just a "Presentation" than can be tuned as the host wants to. But I still see some orphaned blocks if you "load more".

Can you check the found block from the miners' logs when mining on pools?