Actually, I've done some analysis of the stream of messages and it appears the current problem is that the vast majority of messages never arrive (even as of 7:30am CST). You can verify this easily by connecting with two browser windows. The first time I tried it took almost 30 seconds before my second tab even saw my other character even though I was moving both around. And the name in the second tab was never updated even after a minute.
The second time I tried, my first player window saw the other player fairly quickly, but it never registered the change to a ghost or my name change and it just showed the second player as a balloon guy floating up forever (even after the second client window disconnected).
I did this testing at 7:30am CST. There were about 90 other players that I was getting updates from. However, this is the same type of behavior I've seen whenever I have connected since it went live. And friends in other locations see the same behavior so it's not just my environment.
The second time I tried, my first player window saw the other player fairly quickly, but it never registered the change to a ghost or my name change and it just showed the second player as a balloon guy floating up forever (even after the second client window disconnected).
I did this testing at 7:30am CST. There were about 90 other players that I was getting updates from. However, this is the same type of behavior I've seen whenever I have connected since it went live. And friends in other locations see the same behavior so it's not just my environment.