Problems in Talk

At first the threads would stay bold after reading. That cleared after half an hour.
Now Talk doesn't seem to update. I just posted on my tread, saw the message posted, but it didn't appear at Talk. I checked the group, and didn't see it there either.

Threads are staying bold again, and I don't see this thread showing up in this group.

Thanks for your reports. We got hit by a bot swam about an hour ago, overloading our database and sending it into "replication." Basically that means that everything that changes anything waits in line, and the site seems not to respond to changes.

We shut down the bot swarm and the replication has returned to normal. Sorry.

>3 timspalding: Thank you, Tim, glad you could fix it.
Bots seem to cause a lot of trouble lately.

It's happening again, I think

Seems to be happening again/still. More bots?

Again.

Closing. Indeed, bots are more of a problem.