<shrugs> I ran list servers for years, and was the chief tech and head of desktop support for big groups of users in a big semiconductor company and I try to look at it from both sides.
It'd be nice if we could look up where we sit, both in an estimate in days from where they're currently serving, and in relation to the entire list for those who are a long way from being served.
The problem is we're dealing with some instability in the supply chain, so any guesstimate for the first, "how many days away am I?", can grow when there's a delay receiving the mother boards, then people freak out when they see the number going up. People freaking results in some of them not being able to handle it and spewing all over the forum, or harassing Fractal, and neither are positive situations, so IMO, Fractal is right to not say anything. Similarly, the situation of people finding out they're sitting at 2,999 out of 3,000 in the queue will discourage too many and that could cause them to make decisions that Fractal doesn't want, so, either way it seems like Fractal should just stay quiet, and let people think what they want.
I also suspect, human nature being what it is, that people would jump onto the list in speculation, like ticket scalpers, hoping that when they're close to being served they could figure out a way to auction off their invitation to those at the end. People are so inventive those ways.
P.S. - I'm currently sitting two minutes from the most recent times served. Yeah. Two. Fricken. Minutes. That's because I was trying to figure out if the FM9 announcement was a spoof or weirdly timed April Fool's joke and watched two videos to confirm it was the real deal, and then sent my RSVP in.
Two. Fricken. Minutes. I'd probably be sitting back twiddling knobs on a new FM9 right now, but, NOOOOooooo, I was skeptical. LOL
