Forum broken?

[cs96and]

The boards seems to be behaving very strangely today.  For instance, there are two threads that I replied to in this forum yesterday (2nd Feb), but neither are showing on page 1...

http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,29375.0.html
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,31572.0.html

The first non-pinned post is "Fuze+ Rockbox New" which was last updated on 30th January.  Also clicking on the page numbers gives a load of blank pages.

I also received an email saying that someone had replied to one of my posts, but that reply is not showing.

[torne]

The forum has been receiving an incredibly large amount of spam lately; notifications about replies that aren't there will be because the post has been deleted for being spam.

The antispam software the forum is currently using has an issue where it doesn't leave the "last post in this thread" time set to the right thing after deleting spam, so the order of threads is a little chaotic after each spam cleanup.

We're working on fixing this, please bear with us; but in the meantime, don't worry that you are "missing" posts - things display weirdly sometimes but the only missing posts are deleted spam.

[gevaerts]

It's a bit worse than that, actually. If the most recent post in  thread is marked as spam, and we delete that message, the entire thread isn't visible from the regular index pages any more because the most recent post field of the topics table points is invalid.

[LambdaCalculus]

The forum has been receiving an incredibly large amount of spam lately

That's an understatement.

I've seen accounts being registered at an insane rate, and the majority ended up being spammers. I had the notion of just banning and deleting said accounts, but alas, I haven't mod powers.

[torne]

It's a bit worse than that, actually. If the most recent post in  thread is marked as spam, and we delete that message, the entire thread isn't visible from the regular index pages any more because the most recent post field of the topics table points is invalid.

Oh. Well.. sucks