sent octocoinpool (dot) tk pool operator a message about gaps about an hour long where coins do not show up even though dashboard registers me mining. Not sure if it's faster to contact here or through pool's email.
Honestly, this seems to happen on every pool.
With every coin. Every time. Does anyone remember pre-christmas when the R9's came out, and 280X's were flying off the shelves, and impossible to get. Took the price from $300 a card to $400 a card. All that added hashing power took even the best pools down. The added flow of coin, had Cryptsy at its knees. MCXNow shut down temporarily(I think rightfully so), because RS knew his infrastructure, mainly on the support side wasn't ready to cope with the huge influx. Almost no one was able to cope with the growth... These 888 pools had no time to test things... Thankfully the P2Pool's appear to be running flawlessly. freebtc.eu:8888 just keeps spitting coin at me. And all quirks aside, xnigma.com is not a horrifying place to have start getting the 888 moving around. The sysops are actually quite present, and willing to listen to their userbase. Right now all coins are alpha. Even the Alpha(Bitcoin) is alpha. 888 Seems on par, with other coins being released in this day and age.