A little bit more time for pools would have been nice, why such a freaking rush, it's not like few days of warning would have changed things dramatically. My 200MH/s pool was stuck on the wrong fork for maybe 12 hours
I blame no one else than myself, but I might have been able to see the update if there would have been more time.
I do apologize for the short notice- we were pumping messages out for 5 days ahead of the release, pools should have been on notice but I still understand the window to upgrade was short. Luckily the majority of the network moved over very quickly.
We had to move fast because honestly the coin was getting destroyed and multipools manipulating the forkpoint (unintentionally), it would have taken weeks to reach the old fork point. We (community and team) talked about shooting for a lil higher forkpoint but we did that last time and got screwed... its a hard decision to make, and even harder to make sure everyone knows. We tried our best and as always, have learned and will make clients available ahead of time for pool operators sooner next time.
What pool do you run? If it is a public pool we're trying to keep the list of updated pools current so post up your pool if its public. Thanks.