It's enough to have listen=1 in your config, however you might still be unable to accept incoming connections depending on your ISP and router setup.
For the 0.10 release you should also ensure full sync (spv=0 and autorequestblocks=1).

If you are offline when the pool's down try addnode=80.208.229.211

My bad, did not check the faucet after the server software update. Should be fixed by now, please check it out.
80.208.229.211 is a new stable node, it should be up even if the main site and miningbase are down.

Apparently invite link expired, you may try mine: https://discord.gg/UwVQaj9

Roughly 2 billion currently, with endless emission of 8 million every year.

I see a sizeable 1.5 Gh/s rig joined, getting a few hundred per hour as expected. 300-400 coins a day is single card level, too little for the rig for sure!
Well, since rig users are mostly driven by simple greed, once the difficulty rises too high they return to mining their ethereum or whatever is trendy and the difficulty falls back.

So far various altcoins tried to introduce scalable rewards and such to be rig-resistant, but none of those really took off yet, perhaps implementing your idea of a coin that can't be mined by the same node 24/7 would be a fun challenge.

As of quark, anime indeed uses same hashing functions in different order, but it also requires a few 80-bit hash routines which only ANI uses, thus porting is not trivial (i had some headache modifying KlausT's ccminer and it still turned out slower than tpruvot's). I'm quite sure it will remain asic-resistant for the time being.
I should mention lower tier cards seem to have a better cost-effectiveness on this algo as well, 1050ti=20Mh, 1060/P106=23-29Mh, 1070=27-29Mh... Wonder how well 1080ti performs?

Well, greedy people with '1080ti rigs' get 200-400 coins hourly, they do have their point.
And 1000 coins per day is basically 1/23 of the network, so it won't happen with more than two dozen single-card miners anyway, obviously.
Both overpowered miners and too few miners are equally bad, as they ruin decentralization concept.

Either way, realistic or ideal, mining will start yielding less coins and you can only hope it remains profitable in fiat. In case of ANI, it's much more profitable than last year's. So i don't find your hatred rational.

And? That's around $0.1-0.3 by last year's price. Today the same card yields $0.3-0.4.

Аctually, the network is quite empty at this very moment. Just 2 real rigs running (400-800 Mh/s each, gaining roughly $30-50 daily). There's usually at least 1 rig soloing by my estimations, but not tonight.
And miningbase usurps way too much block findings now, you guys should probably give friedkiwi's pool a chance.

Nodes i'm connected to right now:

addnode=188.210.92.86:35816
addnode=211.126.130.212:1212
addnode=112.223.72.171:63498
addnode=91.247.118.98:64540
addnode=1.240.0.153:6565
addnode=108.170.1.134:5133
addnode=112.220.124.178:53032
addnode=80.220.152.209:44104
addnode=94.78.227.166:51933
addnode=112.153.2.229:1212
addnode=51.15.203.75:1212
addnode=40.115.61.12:36220
addnode=176.104.154.97:51876
addnode=183.99.199.54:49793
addnode=65.200.165.210:47497
addnode=79.118.176.59:64744
addnode=106.244.82.132:50967
addnode=188.134.72.213:31941
addnode=62.102.148.187:52924
addnode=91.247.118.98:58529
addnode=112.223.72.171:49952

and myself would be addnode=188.187.62.35:1212

You may also use https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/CoinInfo/?coin=ANI and similar services to obtain nodelists.

Actually it seems invalid shares come from certain client rather than certain mining software.
I assume some weird network issue (client ip belongs to a vpn service). Unfortunately i lack data to resolve it yet.

Sure home pc mining in general is not profitable much atm.
But that's still twice the amount conventional coins like zec or eth would yield.

Well, the pool's been working in test mode for two weeks before advertisement, there wasn't a usage spike or anything, so definitely not my fault lol.
The blocks found seem to match the offical explorer so far.

Around 28 MH/s with -i26 (the highest i could reach).
Ccminer-1.6.5 displays 43 MH/s with -i20 but that does not match the pool effective hashrate (which stays roughly the same for both versions).

This seems reasonable, one block per 30 seconds means 2880 blocks per day, or 23k coins network-wise.
(28MH/2200MH assumed network power)*23k means around 300 theoretical coins per day, which matches observed mining results.

I guess, but seeing this in logs bugs me.

You exaggerate. A single 1070 gives over $2 per day even considering the recent bear market (used to be around $5).

There seems to be an issue with some cpuminer/2.3.2 (i assume that's AMiner) users massively submitting invalid shares to the pool (a few dozen per second to be exact).
Though i tested AMiner with no issues, this may still be an obscure stratum difficulty glitch, if you experience this and you are sure your miner and network are working properly, debug logs would be appreciated.
Alternatively, you may try the latest cpuminer-opt or try increasing difficulty via password (-p c=ANI,d=0.1 for example).