Comment tree processing is delayed

Resolved

Comment processing has now fully caught up. Thank you for your patience!

Update

A large spike in traffic caused some scaling issues, which delayed new comment display across the site. All comments posted during this time will be displayed as the servers work through the backlog.

Update

We are continuing to work on addressing the issues causing comments to be delayed.

Update

We've identified the underlying problems and are working on addressing them.

Investigating

We are aware that newly posted comments are not showing up immediately in comment trees. We are currently investigating this issue.