Just a follow-up, Antpool is working for me again. I'm sure you all are happy...
I have been looking for an alternative to Antpool as you all suggested, but I am mining BTC cash right now, and I don't see anything for that. I have used Slush way back in the day (with my sapphire 6880s!) and they were steady. I am also mining scrypt multi-pool at mining-dutch but that doesn't seem to pay as well as I expected. I get more from LTC at Antpool.