It's been 24 hours since yesterday morning's high user count of around 275 and this morning it's back to its usual 30 or so.
With a high count of over 550 two nights ago and the yesterday morning count of over 250 one has to question what happened.
Personally, I can't subscribet to the theory promoted by Travis that "people checked their email and then the forum".
I think something happened at the server end. I don't know what that was, but it brings to mind the theory of "Occam's Razor".
Simply stated that says if there are two or more reasons for something happening, the simplest explanation should be the one considered correct.
Here's a more dictionary definition of Occam's Razor:
Occam's razor (also written as Ockham's razor, Latin lex parsimoniae) is a principle of parsimony, economy, or succinctness. It states that among competing hypotheses, the one that makes the fewest assumptions should be selected.