Here's a bit of info from Rivals.com:
"engineering team immediately jumped into the mix at the first sign of an issue yesterday afternoon and began working through all measures to improve performance and come up with a permanent and long-lasting solution. The technical causes were identified late last night and we began immediately implementing steps for performance optimization of the message boards during peak traffic times where session tracking and the search feature were causing slow performance."
The search feature was disabled and will remain so for a few days while some fixes are applied. They also made some changes in the database servers last night.
"engineering team immediately jumped into the mix at the first sign of an issue yesterday afternoon and began working through all measures to improve performance and come up with a permanent and long-lasting solution. The technical causes were identified late last night and we began immediately implementing steps for performance optimization of the message boards during peak traffic times where session tracking and the search feature were causing slow performance."
The search feature was disabled and will remain so for a few days while some fixes are applied. They also made some changes in the database servers last night.