The Gateway has been acting up recently, and is incredibly slow today. If I recall correctly, this is a regular problem with their servers and just doesn't get the maintenance it requires but rather degrades until enough people speak up.
To be clearer, the countdown to updates gets stuck at "Updating in" It appears that the rares are actually getting updated if you get your browser to refresh. I'm having isp problems that make it hard to confirm what's going on - I'm trying to compare in-game to the gateway but my isp is less than cooperative.
Please fix this. Logging in and out doesn't work for me. Sometimes it changes when another task is completed, but sometimes not. So usually I get stuck either choosing a rare or waiting for another task to complete, hoping that it won't still be bugged after.