There were delays in the page loading, and it appeared that the source was that Haloscan was loading too slowly, because after their takeover by JS-Kit, they have pretty much left the increasingly overburdened system running on auto-pilot.
I migrated to JS-Kit, which means that old comments are hosed, at least for a while, they claim that they will migrate them “real soon now”.
Whatever.
Comments should still show up in the “recent comments” box on the left, as soon as the new ones start filling the queue.