Thanks to everyone who emailed and texted me! My apologies for the downtime, but a record 43,426 people were online at 10:43 AM and it brought YF's server to its knees. I have PHP permissions set to disable certain sectors in case of flooding. Today is the first time that script was ever tripped. Everything should be operating nominally now...
One of the threads was linked to Reddit. So that accounts for the huge jump in traffic today. I came across the post earlier. It made the front page of Reddit. This in the Reddit post. TIL that the 15 largest commercial ships in the world create as much pollution in a year as every car on the planet : todayilearned TIL means Today I Learned