The limbo period is still in place, nothing regarding this has been changed. Like you said, the limbo period is there to give models time to get ready to go back into open, though on the customers' side, it appears as if they are still in private.
Would you mind elaborating on how you were able to determine that the model didn't get their limbo period? Is there a chance that the model did get their limbo period and that there were other customers waiting to go private as soon as the model popped back into open? This isn't uncommon as we have quite a few members who are loyal to certain models.
I have been using the new interface regularly since it was introduced. A couple of times, when the group chats I was in ended, the members were returned to the open chat room. The models typed brief messages, like "thank you" or "boosts and reviews appreciated". Then, a few seconds later, the left side of the screen--where the video feed appears and where the curtains appear during private, multi-user, or group shows--flickered. From my observations, the flicker usually coincides with either someone going into voyeur (if it is a private show), someone joining multi-user, or the show ending (in which case the video feed returns shortly thereafter).
Unlike on the old interface, where the buttons to Go Private or Go Multi-User (as well, if I recollect correctly, as the curtains) are darkened and inactive during the limbo period, on the new interface they seem to become active the moment the group chat or private show ends.
Perhaps I am mistaken and it is simply because of a lag on my end (which no one seems able to help me fix). However, I have witnessed it several times under different circumstances, including when a model is using the split Private/Multi-User log-in and the pink Private show curtains abruptly shift to the blue Multi-User curtains.
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