it always has done that.

Has always done that for me too... It might be a system/browser update you recently applied that makes it possible for you to see it now...

In the middle of reading plurks? Never done that before.

And I've definitely not made any changes.

Maybe self refresh is the wrong term, though that certainly describes it. How about the page up and reloading all by itself?

yes plurk sent me a message saying they were having issues and should be solved in about 15 minutes . all is well

Yeah, I had the database maintenance page before mine went all screwed. Now it keeps telling me there are responses when there aren't.

*kicks plurk for misbehaving so much lately*