I think that is the difference between your owner being a lifelong FAN or an investor optimistically* looking for a profit.
*other adjectives may well apply!
Just a note... I discovered the AVAST package I have had on my PC for years includes an 'anti-tracking' component and also has a whitelist which I have now added northstandchat.com to... hopefully that will help.
Does every device on the same IP get the same queuing number - NO I guess that would be really difficult for big organisations etc... I was able to have multiple devices on my home wifi which would all be ephemeral ports on my router's static IPaddr.
What is stopping someone refreshing through...
It did progress quite smoothly across the screen over about 15 minutes... others in our group just sat on 2 bars throughout.
Then got in, and filled numbers and postcodes, the forms all filled automagically, and card payment... and bingo.
No confirmation email yet - but apparently that took 3...
I had a Twitter account from the early days... stopped using it a couple of years ago.
I don't miss it at all, but will follow the odd link to a post or story.