Things are crawling today because overnight the crystals IotD got Farked
http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comm...IDLink=2688251
They linked to the forum view, which kills us every time.
Up until that point, stumbleupon was finding it a lot.
In the long run I think it may become necessary to split the forums and the database across two different servers. In the short run I will try to point to less interesting IotDs.