It's a matter of priorities but I admit we dropped the ball here. The best decision was to close out the pool.
This wasn't run by the devs as a group. It was just run by me personally. The pool had a bug that caused it to accumulate a 100K OMB backlog which I'm paying out of my pocket to get all miners payed.
Going forward we recommend to use the nodejs-pool code instead of cryptonote-pool.
All: we're going to terminate pool.ombre.io, which has been a problem child from the start, in favor of the other (more stable) pools available. The dev team simply does not have enough time to deal with pool management in addition to development of new features and helping with technical issues.
It will be closed within 24 hours so please migrate your miners to a different pool
All pending balances will be payed out.
Devs not being able to keep a pool running decently sounds weird to me lol