The pool isn't perfect. Considering it's free, I think it's doing very well. How many people are contributing? I'm putting in 1%.
M
They were putting in 0.5% AFAIK but not sure. I am at 0.3% (I'm cheap and broke)
Other pools are also free (GHash [with a lot of merged mining that works]/ EMC[no merged but the handy push here to instantly get your BTC button])
As of now (10:00 AM EST) one of my miners can't even find Eligius (it's on cable) the other 2 on my office network can.
As I said before I like this pool, I want it to succeed. But till the issues get fixed I don't see that happening.
-Dave