To anyone that cannot use stratum, I encourage you to set up your own stratum mining proxy. I don't have time to write a full guide on it at the moment, but basic details are here: http://forum.feathercoin.com/index.php?topic=3065.0 In that thread, I also post the version I used when I had some online and some steps that some users generally miss on the setup guide posted at that github link.