We had some major problems last night. The site was acting up and some pages didn't work properly. The issues have stopped now.
The problem with the economy update is that it takes a long time and affects a lot of things. However, this is common and never caused this kind of havoc. We found out that it was some other changes to the site that caused the problems, so we removed those.
Usually, when the site is slow and you're trying to force your way in by trying to open a hundred pages, you're just making the matters worse, so I'd like to use the opportunity to ask for patience in the future.