Black Friday

Friday November 29, 2003 goes down in Hattrick history as "The Black Friday". The site was down for 28 hours and the Hattrick Team eventually were forced to do what had never been done in six years of operations: roll back the time of the Hattrick Universe to a backup taken previous morning.

The reason was two consecutive crashes of the hard disk cabinet that contained the main database of Hattrick. Further similar crashes in December 2003 made Hattrick change hard disk manufacturer from Dell to Hitachi. Even though Dell initally denied the existence of a problem, they later confirmed it and corrected the bug in February 2004.

Hattrick has not experienced any hard disk crashes that have affected users since.