It seems to be doing much better for me than last night. Last night I could not open longer threads without suddenly getting 404 (page not found) in the middle of the thread opening. It was quite wierd, from the 404, it bounced me back to trying to open the thread - I think I could have left it for an hour or more just cycling though this on its own!

The best wild guess I can come up with is that someone had tried to put a timeout into the system. Whatever with that and names now dissapearing, it does appear that software changes have been made. Hopefully when completed, they will improve the stability of MC.