[hpcorona]

https://developers.google.com/events/io/help#reg_tips "We'll take you to a waiting page while we try to find you a ticket. Expect to be on this page for up to six minutes. On this page, don't refresh your browser or your ticket search will restart."

Previous years have been this way? is this new?

[ben1040]

I believe that's new for this year. 2011 was a total mess as the registration page was just a ColdFusion site run by their event management vendor, and they were clearly used to medical conferences and the like that don't get the same swift response that I/O would get. The registration site served up way more 503 errors than pages.

Last year was better because Google took it in-house, but it was still an F5-fest.