Well, I tried to get caught up on this thread, but 2300 unread posts since last night is....intimidating, to say the least!
I ordered last night at 6:30pm PST for 1 Heaux and of course it got canceled. Fine, MAC, cancel my one lipstick. I made up for it today "post-launch" by getting the lustre drops, 2 Heaux, 1 Riri Woo and 1 Riri Boy between 3 orders. Riri Woo was a grand finale order and the checkout time was pretty fast - about 5 minutes or less. The first order of Heaux and the lustre drops took over 2 fricken hours! I was lucky my iphone didn't drain its battery on me, and that the page continued to load even though the lock screen showed up. I was also at work so thank goodness I had something else to do besides sit and watch the mind-numbing page refreshes. I just periodically opened my phone up to check and see if it took me to the shopping basket screen. My second order took a brisk 40 minutes to complete.
I don't "mind" the waiting room nonsense, but it would be nice if the kinks were worked out. I understand the purpose of it, but it's definitely more randomized than sequential. Although, if MAC did this for EVERY launch, I'm pretty sure I'd pack up my traincase and move it to other brands, asap.