I guess it depends on your aircraft/seat. In the MD FO seat, it took hours to get any notifications. I put in requests as soon as I could get on the site (VIPS server busy) and didn't have notifications at 2AM. I just made about 30-40 selections and went to bed. I did get the notifications when I woke up at 7AM.

As someone else said, we put in about 10X the number of requests because it takes so long for crew scheduling to get it. It makes their workload much harder. Why they can't fully automate this system or at least bring in a few extra bodies for open time release is ridiculous.

I saw no improvement at all....