Seriously, who releases new code and a fork within 24 hours of the code release? I pulled the code and built on March 6. New code was pushed March 7 with a fork within a day of release? This doesn't give time for any exchanges or pools to update properly. I'd be surprised if you aren't delisted from a bunch of exchanges that were still on the original code and had orders go through that they'd already completed for coins that are no longer valid on your new chain.
Our network was having problems that needed immediate fixing. This wasn't an ideal situation. We began communicating with exchanges about a week and a half prior to the fork, filling them in on the situation. On a whole exchanges and pools understood the need for the update having seen what was going on. Our network suddenly wasn't following the 90s emission schedule, and blocks were coming at random intervals which opened the network up to some serious consequences. Updating ASAP, although inconvenient, was the best option.
Problem is with most exchanges inundated with new customers and support requests it really didn't give them time. I know at least cryptopia lost some on this because they were off on the old network still after the fork and still allowed trades to go through. DGW will still have the same random intervals for the coin as long as multipools are hashing your coin as well, it will probably help some, but when a large multipool hashes the diff up high you'll notice a few hours between blocks if you don't have enough hash via dedicated miners to compensate. Giving pools and exchanges at least a week to look over the code changes and get wallets up and functional prior to a fork would have been more beneficial. Exchanges lost money on this fork, I'm sure cryptopia wasn't the only one that had issues, communicating with them early is the right thing to do, but you have to have the code for them to pull, and that wasn't on github until a day before the fork, just seem irresponsible to me.
