Ok so here's the run down
the fix, get this, means you gotta mine.
More miners the faster it will get fixed, sounds crazy right?
The reason why the difficulty spiked is because some fucking duch mother beep decided to troll or just for the fucks of it run 200 000 kh/s on the network for a short period, they probably found the block, and left. The way mining works is, difficulty is raised the more power is on the network, and the difficulty changes per block. Since it jumped so much in a short time and left so soon, the block stayed difficult, meaning is harder to find, so we gotta work at it until we do. When we do, the network will reshift difficulty because the 200 000 is not there anymore so it will stabilize and we start getting coins again.
Do not stop mining, if you do this shit takes longer. I can commit 5~ hours a day at roughly 10 000 kh/s to help out, and have been for a bit, just people are greedy and leave because they can't find any coins. A pool means working together to solve a problem, not work when it's beneficial for you.
Hope that clears up the issues.