Today, when I get a new mail indicator on the Stack Exchange link and click on it, the inbox doesn't display anything. I can check the sites individually by going to them and I see that there are indeed comments addressed to me.
It's also not showing older comments.
This was working yesterday.
I'm in Chrome on Vista.
Looks like we had a back-end blip late last night that broke inbox loading.
Basically, if we haven't seen you for awhile we drop your inbox (persisting it of course). The next time we see you, we start the process of loading your inbox. This can take a few minutes (though is often much faster). This loading part stopped working.
So far as I can tell, there was no data loss. Additionally, you would still have been notified of any new activity (as it would go into your "empty" inbox immediately, independent of the loading process).
Anyway, the process has been restored and everybody's inboxes should start being reloaded now.
-bydesign.