My first guess is that it's caused by Adblock Plus. The people who maintain EasyList periodically try to block forum ads, but it is impossible to reliably block forum ads using Adblock Plus, and trying to do so creates a mess like that.
Does it reliably happen at this link?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1703694.0;forcead=5I have turned off adblock-plus a while ago, but sometimes I still get an empty thread like that with no posts, but I just F5 and all is well tho, I can tell because it's a new page with no content. I assume it's chrome, no biggie here.
Thanks!