I found your message in sting.

Author muting is when you are on a blog/community/comment feed you only see the one's not muted by the author.
IF you want to see them all, turn that off.

The k/e ratio is a curator's tool to see who is dumping.

Often times when things don't load it's either the node or the server, try again.

I've been seeing keychain popups to allow access to pics on peakd, perhaps that has something to do with it.