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Just wondering if anybody else has experienced any problems with the message boards recently? A couple of hours ago, I replied to a message Deborah had posted on the Theory Application : Theory tasks all failing thread and I noticed a couple of strange things happened while writing my post. Specifically, when I opened the thread to read her message, her message was the only post on the thread and because her message was unanswered, I started drafting my reply, I also opened a second window (to find a message I wanted to reference) and began copying/pasting info into the message I was drafting. During that process, the window in which I was writing my reply was "updated?"/became intermingled with strange data, I later realized that this "update?" was a garbled refresh of the thread which included posted replies which I had not seen when I first opened it.. The problems seem to be gone now. So it looks to me that I just happened to be posting during a time when the MB server may have been having some transient issues. Just thought you'd like to know.

This is normal behavior atm.

Specifically, when I opened the thread to read her message, her message was the only post on the thread

Not sure if this a question, but replying to a thread and replying to a post is different. Replying to a post will only show the related post underneath the text area while you type.

So it looks to me that I just happened to be posting during a time when the MB server may have been having some transient issues.

As you suspected, some one answered while you were drafting your answer and that screwed up your post. You might even find the server didn't accept your post, which has happened to me before.