Ok, I'm one of the lucky people who landed in Smokey 😎
I was just minding my business when Chrome stopped refreshing the page, "W..T.., Meadowbrook?", but the icon was clearly showing YES....
It happened that Bellisseria was the second item in the list, and after two "page error, retry to choose your home" warnings I've seen the "your home" page YAY!!!
At least I now know:
1) the Autorefresh was working as intended
2) the rate of land abandoning is MUCH lower now
3) there must be some procedure that doesn't immediately release the new homes into the pool, contrary to what happens with all other themes (noticed how many times Grayson disappears from the Meadowbrook list, only to return five or ten minutes later? If that last Grayson home is what I've checked - and fast abandoned - I wouldn't be surprised, considering where it's literally embedded.....)
4) I wouldn't be surprised too if the abandoned lands are manually managed in that phase to give a sort of idea on the real request from residents, and that explains the lack of available homes during the weekend for me
To answer who asked me about the refresh time: I set it after some tests, until I could see the page to completely render before the next refresh and it was 2 seconds for me - slower connections may need 3 or even 4 seconds -.
I doubt the plugin hadn't still scanned the entire page when it was fully loaded.
now the hard time of choices, what home, what of them is better supported in MP etc etc etc etc.........groans!