I meant exactly what I said.
Fortunately, things seem to go better last hour, so I switched my miner back to MEOWs.
There aren't many pools and a few have had some hiccups which has lead to fluctuation in the network but things are ramping back up and the relaunch hasn't actually happened yet. The devs are just making absolutely sure that everything is above-board and highly visible so that people can be confident that this is a legitimate cryptocurrency that wasn't pre-mined and isn't just a pump-n-dump scam.
I think you're going to be glad you're mining it... I just kind of wish I was able to have another week or three mining at a difficulty of 1.
Cheers!