Usually the first pool always gets the cookies - and miners never ever move away from there as long it is not DDoS'ed, Forked or the Payout crons are hanging

Except for the nicehash issues, nothing to report

Payouts had obviously to be disabled at first while wallet gets updated, but nothing was confirmed yet so that shouldn't matter in this case.
hmm.. strange... well.. i have that too sometimes.. its weird
Back then we had no issues spreading miners around, they would comply. Minerpools attempted a few times to do so, but nobody moves their asses.
I'm starting to understand why so many coins are trying to get rid of the miners by going 100% PoS or SPoW like URO. Not caring by the miners probably has a role to play in that.