The board usually acts wonky at times of high demand. Sometimes rebooting the server helps improve things for a short while. That’s what happened this time.
And also presumably this.
Did anyone else catch that for a short while the main page of the SDMB had a list of all users currently online? That was a hell of a list, something like 550 logged-on users and 200 some odd guests. My jaw dropped when I saw all the names.