I think it affects everyone. Every time I come back after the DC, the continent is empty, except for the warpgates.
I'm sure 1000 kids wildly trying to keep logging back in and back out every second for the past X hours is also really helping, just go eat a hotpocket and take a dump... come back tomorrow.
Aye, other thread on same topic: Dev jumped in said they have a fix they plan to implement. Now server just went to "down for maintenance" so I assume the are applying the fix.