There was a hard drive failure, and they restored from a 2023 backup. The 9 hours of downtime was spent making 6 months' worth of plausible-looking posts
We really shouldn't have put all our solar panels in an area precisely matching the trajectory of a solar eclipse seemingly moving across the Earth's surface. was bound to catch up to us eventually
He got his revenge.
"I typed "Exxon Valdez NUTS" into the comment box and the site couldn't handle my power level
Oh shit, I just did it again oh god oh fuck I don't wanna touch the grass again nooooo 
I strongly believe in the benefits of going out, so I unplugged the site for awhile so you kids could play
The mods & admins were trying in vain to stop future badposting from me.
They failed. Look out 
hit the serversSomebody wanted to torture me by taking away my Hexbear content on the very day Bluesky is having 100,000,000+ "like farming" posts about the goddamned eclipse.
Okay, whoever you are - I'm sorry for whatever I did. Please don't do this to me again.
Solar flare emp over the server farm on an abandoned research oil rig in the Indian ocean.
Xi's check didn't come through since the Chinese economy is tanking so they had to take down the site until he could borrow the money from Kim and wire over the server fees.