claypoolfan wrote:Server has totally crashed.

To me, the behavior of the site implies that whatever database they're using isn't up to the load. According to Nick's comments on Facebook, they've got a massive pipe and a ton of processing power, but that much flow doesn't help if you're user accounts and other structured data reside in the equivalent of a kiddie pool.

I'm not planning to attend Thai night at Next (saving my baht for a visit to Bangkok later in the year), but this debacle combined with the utter failure of a DNS switchover for Paris, I'm pretty confident in saying that whoever the "nerds" are at Next, they are in over their heads.