Very sad indeed.
So will there be a manual withdrawal like btc guild?
Why? I've answered this many times. ScryptGuild auto payouts are already your full balance, and execute hourly unless they're extremely small (then its every 24 hours). Adding the button wouldn't change the fact that it would just be batch processed with automatic payouts (even BTC Guild's manual payouts only execute twice an hour).
Eleuthira, I am really saddened to hear that (IMO) the best Autoswitch multipool (if not only good one due to btc auto convert) is closing down.
As others have mentioned, why not have someone else take it over?
The whole point of using eleuthria's multipool is that I can trust him not only to pay out fairly, but to always try to make the pool as profitable as possible.
If you take eleuthria away from the pool, then you have just another multipool. It might be ok for a while, but long term it would depend on who was running it. If it was me, I'd just prefer to see something I created end rather than be driven into the ground.
This is pretty much the reasoning in a nutshell. I'd much rather end the pool than let somebody else take over or slowly die off. There are problems with the current system which would require rewrites. Operating a pool is a pretty new phenomenon, and the only way you have experience is if you're already running one. Then there's the problem of ScryptGuild (and BTC Guild) being fully custom systems. Every line is from scratch. There are no frameworks for the backend or the frontend, outside of a little CSS/JS for the website. All the actual work is done from scratch. There are no comments, and they're written far from any kind of standard. My code looks like 1990/1991 Diku MUD code, whether its C, C++ or PHP. Actually, even worse, since I learned programming from ROT/ROM derivatives of Diku, which are like 3 forks away from Diku, each one deviating further from from the original code formatting.
I just don't have confidence that I could find somebody who could take over and keep the pool up to the standards I tried to set for myself. While I'm sure there are many out there that could, there's no way to tell who could pull it off and who could completely screw it up.