Look closely, official launch time was delayed, it was for 10pm GMT+1.
During this time we told all miners to stay on the stratum while the pool was fixed, all the coins that were mined were through the official pool, you can look at these payments on the explorer too.

At launch 200+ miners were connected and waiting, please take the FUD elsewhere.

We announced it two hours before launch which gave people enough time to get onto Discord or the pool and in this case it shows by the network hashrate and miners connected.