Web portal not showing any events after signup

I’m using the go sdk and I followed the directions exactly as given. The setup page still shows the event indicator as

Waiting for verification event

I confirmed from the logs that the event is getting sent successfully as displayed here

[Sentry] 2020/03/29 12:55:10 Integration installed: ContextifyFrames
[Sentry] 2020/03/29 12:55:10 Integration installed: Environment
[Sentry] 2020/03/29 12:55:10 Integration installed: Modules
[Sentry] 2020/03/29 12:55:10 Integration installed: IgnoreErrors
[Sentry] 2020/03/29 12:55:10 Sending info event [47f236f212574133907613aeb91e2a1b] to sentry.io project: 5179416
"47f236f212574133907613aeb91e2a1b" 
[Sentry] 2020/03/29 12:55:10 Buffer flushed successfully.
2020/03/29 12:55:10 Flush success

I noticed someone else had a similar issue here and was never addressed How to debug no messages coming in?

I had to click “Create sample event” in the web portal. After that suddenly it started showing me any future events I created from my go program. Definitely a bug here.