The numbers shown on the forum are a bit suspect. They're pushed up by armies of Russian robots constantly scanning the forum with a view to spamming it.
There has, however, been a massive increase in real traffic to the site as a whole since yesterday. There was a massive spike around 5pm (UK time) yesterday and the same again today. Continuous traffic has been way up too. Back to the levels of the site's heyday.
I'd like to think this is because the work I've been doing (aimed at improving operation on phones and reducing load times) has led to Google sending more visitors. More likely, though, it's people checking to see whether their local coffeeshop is still open for business.