Another issue is the lack of dedicated Megacoin mining pools to spread things out -- the only (active) mining pool I am aware of was at multipool.us when the reward halving took place...and most people decided to just switch to the multipool port since they were already there.
I have a new pool almost ready - total build of the pool software from ground up. I am working full time on it and should be ready within 7 days - its mostly finished but its always the last 10% that seems to take the longest
.Here are a couple of screen shots.. (Showing GIL stats on the screen shot as I have been testing with low difficulty coins - but will be releasing with MEC first)
And another:
