Concerning slow connect times for new clients and restarts
Please allow about two minutes for the Tor network to initialize for your client. Your client has to find a Tor circuit to participate in, which takes about 90 seconds, even with the seed nodes built into the wallet.
After about 4 minutes you should have eight or so peers. Synchronization will take about 20 seconds after finding your first two peers.
It looks like we have had a smooth launch. We are watching the network closely and testing to ensure that things proceed smoothly from here.
Launch is very smooth and nice indeed!
please add irc to thread