What you were expecting to happen, and what actually happened:
When I login it gets stuck on this screen shown above and I have to restart the game.
How often does this happen? When did it begin happening?
It happens about 3 times before I can finally get into the game. It’s been happening for about 3 weeks.
Steps to make it happen again
It happens every time I start up the game. It takes a few tries to get through after restarting the game. Yesterday I got in on one try so I thought the update fixed it, but I’m having the same issue today.
No error messages, it just seems “stuck” about halfway through the meter?
Me personally, the only times I’ve had difficulty logging in were caused by (local) wi-fi outages, but in those cases the meter did not progress at all and I did receive an error message. Your case is different.