Looking to hear if there are many people that wouldn't be in favour of raising the minimum payments and/or the frequency.
I think your pool attracts a lot of smaller miners. Raising the minimum payment might drive them away. But a payout once a day would be fine .. but also I've noticed sometimes the site / pool seems to black out for a few seconds when the payments get processed. Is that going to get worse if you change it to once or twice a day?
Right, there are a lot of smaller miners. It is expensive to send those smaller tx's so it's a bit of a double edged sword. The pool shuts down the frontend on purpose during payout to allocate it's resources to payment calculations and minimize disruptions. It wouldn't change much with less payouts per day.