striker1064
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Jan 17, 2018
I get that it was a perfect storm of demand yesterday, but I think the queue was completely ineffective.
Yesterday, at ~9:45 I got into the queue on both my personal and my work cell phone. Remained in queue on both those devices until registration finally opened up at 12:30. Both had wait times of over an hour. Just for giggles, after watching for 3 minutes and both still showing at over an hour, I opened up a new page on my work laptop and clicked the "register" button for the 5k and it brought me right to the registration page.
The first of my queued devices finally let me in at 1:37, by which time Dopey would've been sold out. People hitting the register button should not be put into a randomized place in the queue, they should only be allowed in after everyone in queue has had a chance to register.
This is also why I was reading yesterday's discussion about runDisney possibly creating a lottery system with some amusement - based on my previous experiences with entering the queue with multiple browsers, rD is already using a lottery system! You never know what you're gonna get when you enter the queue, and entering early, on time, or late has absolutely no bearing on your wait time.