Now thats the whale is gone, can you please change the diff again?
at least for now, until he's back.
The difficulty was changed to 512 in order to improve the efficiency of the servers. I don't like much it either, but that is the way is it for now. poolwaffle would likely reduce the difficulty if situations permit, but currently they do not.
You would know this too if you searched the thread. Search is your friend.