So this happened:
Just yesterday it was only 30 minutes...is something going on or is this a bug?
As an update I've been getting 1 hour or more times all day...
This wait time is a big pile of Wang Chung not fun nuts. Meaning Everyone is not having fun tonight...I am NOT Wang Chung'ing tonight.
I have seen everything from 12 minutes to over an hour the last two days. ( I wasn't paying attention prior so can't comment on that!) I don't know what is going. Would be very grateful if someone could just let us know if this is working as intended or some weirdo bug, pretty please? Here.... platypus...

Yeah, this is normal. It's unfortunate, but normal.
Thank you for answering. It is seriously unfortunate.
If it's any consolation, they I guess lower the times on the last day and hopefully they'll be 5 minutes again like they were with the downtime last week.
I just wish it was more consistent rather than between 15 minutes or so and an hour and 20 minutes
Oh these long times are normal? I forget every year XD
I remember Keith saying that the average user spends an average of 30 minutes a day on the site. That means the average user will only get one item a day from the patch. Oh well...at least we got the fast times for almost 2 days thanks to the downtime :S
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