Thanks for reaching out! I noticed at least every 60 seconds or more and sometimes within that 60 seconds, regardless if you talked more than once per minute or not, these spikes occur. They start to come in at least 60 seconds after creating a connection to the server, no matter how many channels you join or what kind of CAPs you initially requested. Strangely, pings and pongs are perfectly normal, getting lag times within the range of 40-80 ms between the servers and my location, which is pretty normal for me, although I got even lower ping times before the migrations began. I can connect to this cluster fine, yet I can stay connected for many hours or even days like before the migration began. (And I’m not saying that I’m having any issues connecting to the new AWS servers and staying connected.)
Unfortunately, the only way to measure this kind of lag is to write a script, whether be for HexChat, a custom-made bot script, etc., that measures the time between the exact moment you hit the Enter/Return key and getting the USERSTATE reply. If you want to take a look at the source code for my HexChat Python script that does this and try it out, I’ll gladly provide it in this thread.