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It's not like it's a line at the DMV...

I'd imagine they'd test the performance with say 100 users, then another 900 to make it a round 1000, then if they see the 1000 users only use 1% CPU, they could just go up to 10000 to see if it uses 10% CPU or just 5%...

And after they figure out how many servers/how much bandwidth they need, they could just bring in e.g. 100K users online at once.

They also probably want to roll out in batches to reduce the impact of bugs, not just to measure resource usage. But absolutely agree that once they get comfortable bringing in 100k at once is perfectly possible.

I'm trying to join the wait list but it just kicks me back to the join wait list button page after a quick second of spinning wheel.

Just does it over and over.

We are working to fix that. Sorry you are having trouble.

It worked now. Thanks!!

Getting the same thing here

As a data point, 4 hours later I'm #194387 in line