was this necessary to do, basically without notice? if the issue was with bfgminer wouldn't it be the responsibility of those that run it to revert to a previous version or change from the default - rather than bounce all miners?
If there was any actual downtime expected, a 24h+ window would have been provided. For properly working miner configurations/hardware, the restart was virtually transparent.
in hindsight it was more of personal issue for me getting upset due to the to Luke-jr/bfgminer connection - sending some hashes to ghash.io didn't help either.
thanks for your continued efforts keeping btcguild the best managed/performing pool out there.