I had heard people were complaining about OCC being down yesterday, but I didn’t put much thought into it… mainly because my home IP is banned… well, I got to work this morning and happened to stop by OCC.

At first I thought I was seeing things. Every post on the OCC forums was from mid-January. There wasn’t anything posted on the forums about it… so after I posted a thread asking WTF was going on, I happened by the front page and saw an item stating that OCC had experienced a HDD crash, recovery efforts were unsuccessful, and that a hell of a lot of data was lost.

That has to be a catastrophic blow to OCC… seven months worth of member accounts, forum posts, and news items. That’s a lot of information that is just completely gone.

I wonder how the members will take it.