Not sure if it's just an artifact of blocks getting confirmed taking longer but have been fairly steady state on SHA hash, and the payout numbers have been very consistent, but this is the first day in quite a few where my balance is short of the threshold. Kind of surprised just given that it's a relatively high volume of coins being mined so not clear on why it would take so much longer for things to get confirmed on a given day so randomly. Insight would be appreciated. Just we strange deviation from what's been a predicable trend.
There are a few things that I think could contribute to this, namely yesterday was a bit odd as C-bit had a very reduced difficulty compared to normal and as such our pool found a decent percentage yielding different proportions from other days previously. It has since stabilized so from this point onward we can try to assess the situation and see if it is more than just C-bit.
Pending balances take roughly 24 hrs to confirm from maturation of the found block, so today's numbers you see in your balance would be found blocks roughly 24-48 hrs ago or longer depending on confirmation time, this may be a bit of the residual "digibyte" effect when it caused a decrease in profitability while having bad luck finding that high difficulty coin. The 24 hr actual you see now should be a separate case compared to what has already matured.
We'll also look into this further to see if anything is off, but my best guess right now would be digibyte and missed opportunities as a result.