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I tried this and it didn't seem to work. I'm mining scrypt with the original gridseeds (5 chip gc3355) and they need a difficulty around 256. I set the password as 'd=256', but nothing changed.

Does this pool merge mine scrypt?

It 'just gives us hint'; the pool will adjust accordingly anyway.

Why do they need the difficulty at 'around 256'? Does it crash?

No, the difficulty only adjusts down to around 2k. I'm using the cpuminer-gc3355 that auto-tunes each chip and it throws that off. The software tries to fix them by restarting:

[2017-09-13 17:29:12] 18: Restarting GC3355
[2017-09-13 17:29:13] 18@0: Lowered GC3355 core frequency down to 875Mhz
[2017-09-13 17:29:13] 18@1: Lowered GC3355 core frequency down to 900Mhz
[2017-09-13 17:29:13] 18@2: Lowered GC3355 core frequency down to 900Mhz
[2017-09-13 17:29:13] 18@3: Lowered GC3355 core frequency down to 975Mhz
[2017-09-13 17:29:13] 18@4: Lowered GC3355 core frequency down to 925Mhz

I don't think the pool is doing anything wrong; sounds like the miner just isn't compatible with variable difficulty pools.
Maybe look at some alternative ways of setting up your miner?

My gridseed devices never stayed connected on miningpoolhub, nor zpool either. I just keep them connected to litecoinpool which they have no problems with.

Mine stay connected fine, the software just thinks the miner is DOA since it hasn't submitted any shares. I misspoke earlier, the difficulty didn't go below 8k. No big deal, I really am looking for a merge mining pool. Multipool.us is doing something similar now too, the lowest the difficulty goes is 2k, regardless of what you set the worker difficulty to. It used to work just fine at 256.