The pool has grown almost 50% since the beginning of the month (30 PH to 45 PH), so that is a good sign to stay around the 3 day block luck average, even after the next difficulty increase tonight. Once more and more people do the pool hopping around like I did, and realize how much better it is to be here instead of what the bigger pools do to the "little guy", it will hopefully grow at a bigger rate as more and more blocks are found.
ok ... have been trying to interpret some of the previous posts ... apologies for the fast fingers on my most recent one ....
if i add more hashrate to my group (i.e. adding 7 other S9 workers to my account) .. will that help me ramp faster? or each worker will need to ramp on its own?
While the S9's each ramp up separately, you would be producing more total shares as they ramp up and earn more per block found as well. The ramping up may seem like a hurdle, but you have to remember there is always a "ramp down" period that is equal to the ramp up period. If you ever move machines or unplug them, you get rewards from blocks found after that even when you don't have your hashrate in the pool at the time.