Reading those comments I just feel it works for some people different than for others, or the content is prioritized
I actually do not get much mails from SCN, just when something is in my moderation queue or something that I abused was approved or rejected. However, this info is coming immediately, I havent seen any delay on those mails.
the communication stream reached new high today with far above 8 hours delay right now, while it was within a minute this morning at 6:30 CET. But already at 7 AM it had a delay of 20 minutes and was developing since then