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by mbreese 1811 days ago
Was it maybe a bodge to avoid a race condition somewhere else? Some kind of timeout to let some other system catch up? I could see waiting for a session to populate in a database or cache on first login. Hopefully it was only for the first login...

Not exactly what I'd call an elegant solution, but it is at least one semi-plausible explanation for a fixed wait.

/ shudder /