Man that sucks, sorry you had to learn it that way. Losing a board and RAM to something you can't even feel is the worst part, it feels like it came out of nowhere. I fried a hard drive years ago the same way and I still get twitchy when I walk on carpet in socks near my desk. These days I just build on a wood table and touch the bare metal of the case before I grab anything. A cheap mat is worth it too if you've got a carpeted room, way cheaper than eating another dead board. You're not dumb for this, half the people who build on carpet just get lucky and never find out.

Cold take for sure, but those Tuesday regulars got the help anyway.

Did you change which 3 tags you were using or just cut the total number down? I ran into something similar last year with my food page (around 2k followers at the time) when I was stuffing like 15 tags on every post and my reach was flat for months. I dropped down to 4 or 5 that were super specific to what I was actually posting and my reach went up within a week or two. My guess is the app was getting confused about who to show my stuff to when I was tagging a bunch of random stuff that did not match the photo. Fewer tags that actually fit seem to tell it exactly who wants to see it. Curious if you noticed the explore page hits came from the same tags or different ones each time.