So what is the alternative?
Is there a better pool out there that has less problems or better luck?
If you know of one then do let us all in on the secret.

But seriously, is there a better option?

I am only a small fish in this pool but will stick it out as I live in hope that these problems will get ironed out soon. 

Maybe Slush could provide a list of current faults or support tickets.
Would help him by not getting flooded with dozens of the same fault reports.

How do we go about making such a request from him?

Ok, noob question for ya.

Do we each need to raise a ticket for the same problem??
If there are many of us with the same problem blocks then is a fix for one a fix for all??
Otherwise Slush support will get swamped with each of us reporting the same problems.

My rewards also way down for  286654.
I am also yet to see any rewards from another confirmed block.

If Slush manages to fix whatever problem this is, do you think the rewards will be updated??

I have no reward showing for 286376. 

I have no Unconfirmed rewards showing up for 21687.
What just happened to that one? I looked at it a while ago and it was a 15hr marathon, then its done and we are into a 3hr+.

I thought it was just me.

"12.02.2014
Quick update, website has been migrated to a new location as it turned out to be a DDOS attack. Everything is now operational."

Can someone clever please explain to me what effect that might have us and on the pool.

You wait, when we get a string of sub 5min rounds all will be forgiven.

I must stop looking at the stats so often, just cant help myself.   

Cluster performance dropped.
People jumping ship??