[iyportne]

...case study continued....

Here's an interesting observation. Nearly everybody here was undoubtedly logged in and looking at your dashboard at T - 500ms. From the conversation here, we also all figured we would have our registration choice clicked and secured at T + 10,000 ms. Generously allowing for those with slow reflexes and internet speeds below 1 Mbps, let's say that the expected lifecycle of the registration product to be...Oh let's say 60,000 ms. We know it and FIRST knows it.

IT FAILED...AND we all knew that at T+ 0ms as did FIRST

Given the life cycle and failure mode which is somehow well researched, documented and proven on this thread within 5 product life cycles, one could conclude that waiting more than 10 life cycles (that would be 10 minute for anyone lost in the math) for the product to suddenly start working again, or needing FIRST to state the already obvious is, well, curious.