Nice to hear it really was all hands on deck during the outage - I was searching out information on the outage and found very little - except for one ranter on Twitter that speculated the problem is due to many inactive witnesses. I'm positively sure that Steem comes strengthened out from this. Still, it's quite unexpected and unheard of with such a long outage, so I hope knowledge is drawn out of this experience and used to prevent such long outage next time.

One of my pet peeves - it's horrible and totally avoidable that all interfaces to Steem falls down in such a circumstance. I strongly believe that old content as well as user balances should be online and available even though the blockchain is not advancing. It doesn't sound like a very big job to ensure nodes will stay up and deliver content (up to the block where things starts going wrong), but without producing, broadcasting or accepting blocks.