There are some known issues with the site at this time. Including the one which affected me is that it can take up to 15 minutes for a post to appear in the forums! That said, the following is a list of known bugs at this time:
Disappearing posts: Disappearing posts - This is not a bug, but a feature. There is an approximately 15 minute site cache that can delay the display of new posts. If your post disappears, wait a while and check back... it'll pop up.
Signatures: Signatures are not displaying at all times. This is a known issue. Posting a signature test here will not work; when the page refreshes, the signature will again disappear. Signature display is consistent, so it's more likely an unintended feature than a bug.
Here's the current behavior:
* The first post in any topic shows the signature.
* An unread topic (completely unread) shows ALL signatures. However, refresh, and only the first post's signatures appear.
* A read topic with no new replies, that hasn't been visited yet this session, also shows all signatures. Refresh it, and again, the replies' signatures disappear again.
* Topics that have been read this session, that now have new replies, completely hide all signatures past the first.
* Topics that were read in a previous session, but now have new replies, show all signatures, but upon refresh, they're hidden again.
* Topics which have multiple pages may not show any signatures on the second page at all.
* Quoting a topic will include both the quoted post/comment's signature, AND the original signature. This will cause a double display if not deleted.
* Signatures DO appear, and when someone pastes their signature in the body of posts, it results in double vision when they do display properly.
Search: Author and forum search may be disabled in an attempt to improve site performance. If you can't find them, have patience, it'll hopefully be back soon.
As a workaround for not being able to use the site's built-in forum search function, you can use google to search the site by adding "site:nanowrimo.org" to the search term.
So to search forum posts for "Dragonchilde" you could use this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Dragonchilde+site%3Ananowrimo.org
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Diann
