Just put one L3+ on solomine to support network.
Yes - there is some problem with newco.in pool - will try to see is it possible to do something. Maybe p2pool software used is quite old.
And what about algo change to be GPU-friendly? - Now with those ASICs everywhere the GPU-community is searching where to put their rigs - and moving away from scrypt algo looks for me as a good idea! The best way - something not @ NiceHash - so the new possible attack is much harder to do.
The second good thing from that - a new wave of PR - the algo-switching is a good-go and positively supported by miners.
I'm sure you mean
S3++ 
In any event spreading the work load (including solo mining) is a great idea.
e-pool has also got problems, I was able to find a handful of blocks in the last 24 hours with 3MH/s but their page doesn't update the information (they are showing last block found as 8th of January)
our pool ( stratum+tcp://p2pool.e-pool.net:5760) is working perfect, we do have bug in showing the correct time (in webinfo page)... but all blocks are found correctly by the pool