Server communications error in Sharepoint365/Access web app

I'm having a similar issue to this post using Office365 (academic). I have an
Access web app that was working fine until about 1 week ago when suddenly became very slow to start on a web browser, and then any changes I make in Access 2013 and then attempt to save results in a dialog box "Please wait while we attempt to save changes"
followed by "Please wait while we attempt to contact the server. Press Esc to quit". Finally, it sometimes fails with "An error occurred in the client while attempting to communicate with the server 'https://<url>.sharepoint.com/sites...
Please contact your system administrator of technical support". If I wait awhile and try again, it usually succeeds. If I try too quickly, then I get the dreaded " '_AppHomeForm' cannot be saved because someone else has made changes to it."
I end up having to discard changes and start over again.
I've already deleted the local cache to no avail.
Is anyone else experiencing similar problems? The other post indicated that the problem magically went away after awhile - I'm hoping for the same but it's been more than 1 week now.

Glad to hear that. If the problem came back, please feel free to contact us. We'll be happy to help.
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