The bigger problem is that no other pools are even advertising in the thread here!  They should be doing more to put themselves in front.  It's tough when we not only have to handle the maintenance of our pool, but also add code to make it smaller?

As for any risks of a fork, there's an exceedingly low chance of this happening.  I think people are scared of what happened with DogeCoin, but that was specifically due to some bugs in the wallet code that made the fork survive.  Half the pools/exchanges were on one wallet, and the other half were on another.

We'll continue to monitor things, and if we see anything dangerous happening then we'll shut off a couple of our stratum servers temporarily to bounce people to other pools.  That's the easiest way, since writing our own worker banning algorithm would take a LOT of work.