What gets me is he asked before the fork if anyone new of testing pools myself and a few others gave pools to test and here still nothing
It's probably because the crypto prices fell further and he figures there won't be much demand for his software.
I've tried the alternate miners and they are a little different but they work at least. However with the recent price slump I just shut everything down together. And I am sure others have also.
I shut down most rigs and leave some to heat my house.