Clarification on shares not updating

Several people have reported that their share counts did not update for quite a while. I've investigated the situation and confirmed this problem. Fortunately the problem does not affect payments at all. Let me explain why. As some of you might have noticed the loading times for miner dashboards have been gradually increasing over the past weeks and months until a point where it become unacceptably slow. This was caused by the amount of shares in the database becoming so big that the process of counting them on demand (when loading a dashboard) became no longer feasable. 

Therefore I've implemented a background process that runs every 15 minutes and which does pre-aggregate the shares of all miners. This process became stuck. Which in turn caused the shares displayed on your dashboard to not update anymore which sucks of course. Those pre-aggregated share counts are only used for the dashboard. The payment process still goes over the entire share table and is unaffected by this mishap. I'm currently working on fixing the pre-aggregation. Until then please do not be alarmed. Your shares are fully accounted for.

Update: I'm currently working on the problem. Expect intermittent disconnects until I report all clear.

Update 2: Aggregation is currently running for all pools. Maintenance is done. I will monitor the aggregation process closely. 

Update 3: After monitoring things for past couple hours, I've decided to revert to the old share calculation method. Which means dashboards once again load slower but at least they are accurate. A permanent and more reliable solution is on the works of course.

Update 4: This afternoon I've deployed another shot at making dashboards fast again that looked bullet-proof on paper but apparently isn't. I've reverted the change. Sorry for the inconvenience. *sigh*