The current block is taking quite some time, other then the down due to the attacks, did the attacks themselves cause issues which would result in it taking longer....

Anybody else having a hard time connecting to pool today, haven't been able to for the past 3 hours.

Hi and welcome, new here too and I'm trying to increase my post count

Okay, thanks for the clarification, that really sucks, guess I missed the warning written somewhere about that. So if I just start mining after several days after a block is started and just so happens that it's solved 24hours later, I get a big reward and screw over others who then mined for days at a lower hash rate (but overall solved more).

Sorry I'm not following, newbie

Bump. I also need the post count

I was mining at triplemining for several days at ~54GH/s, during that time the block wasn't solved. I had stopped mining for about a day when the block got solved, and was awarded .008 BTC which is greatly lower then expected. There is a statistic there about shares solved by you in the last 24 hours. Mine were very low since I wasn't mining then. Is all your work negated if you weren't actually mining when it was solved.... What am I missing? I emailed them at info@triplemining.com but no response after a couple days.
I was awarded correctly when the previous block was solved. Is there another way I can contact them? Thanks.