The shares aren't coming from the block. Shares represent your contribution to the mining effort towards the next block. With a non PPS Payout System, shares only convert to currency when a block is found and each miner gets paid according to this contribution to the block based on his submitted shares. There's a FAQ with more details. I totally agree that we are on a particular nasty long round on that pool. :-(

@ASUS: I was referring to payments for starting from the next payout. I should have made that clearer.

I would appreciate if people would post here how their earnings turned out starting from payouts for blocks after 183510 now that I've adjusted a couple parameters. No matter if you think the payment sucked or you liked it. Just keep it civilized, I'm just a human too. :-)

We had several quick pool restarts for software updates over the afternoon.

It will be fixed over the weekend. I'm just catching my breath as things stabilize after 36 hours of sheer terror. :-)

The recent disconnect was a quick pool restart for a software update.

It doesn't matter that much. All ports have VarDiff enabled. Means your diff will auto-adjust according to your hashpower.

I would need your wallet address to investigate. If you're reluctant to post it here you can also send an email to info@poolmining.org.

Correct me if I'm wrong but it sounded like you've stopped mining at some point. Did you?

Sorry. I've read that four times. I can't follow you. Could try to explain it again?