Thanks for your show of support, much appreciated.
The show of support is the thing that keeps me going and at least at this stage I won't be throwing the towel in.
I've been working on the code trying to figure out what went wrong and I believe I have it nailed now but I'm too scared to deploy it again just yet.
Instead I've put up a separate pool instance for people brave enough to test it that would prefer to help signal support for segwit for the time being. This will be temporary and comes without any guarantee, even though I've since confirmed I found the bug with the previous code. I'd appreciate it some are brave enough to mine on it instead of the current pool as a show of support. I'm pretty sure you will end up with a block if you find one.
Pool is at
stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:13333
Stats at pool2 version of regular pool
http://solo.ckpool.org/pool2http://solo.ckpool.org/users2/http://solo.ckpool.org/workers2/It is on the same server as the existing solo pool so comes with all the same performance and benefits.
Pointed 2 x S9 from kano.is to this pool.