Now it's maintenance!!!! Shouldn't they have done all of this before novemeber?? Don't they realize that there are people obsessed with updating their word count?? This is gonig to totally screw with my chart!!

Penang,

Like you, I like to update my word count as often as possible.   I get a thrill out of seeing that blue graph grow, so I totally agree it's frustrating. 

Maybe you could try to add X amount of words each time the site goes down?

penang wrote:

Now it's maintenance!!!! Shouldn't they have done all of this before novemeber?? Don't they realize that there are people obsessed with updating their word count?? This is gonig to totally screw with my chart!!

It is frustrating but cut them a little slack.  They have to maintain a fully functioning site that is flooded by hundreds of thousands of people in a short period of time uploading terabytes of information all at once with only money from donations for things like staff, servers, and other hardware.  I think they're doing alright.  Wait a week or so when 100,000 people or so give up on their noveling aspriations and all will be well again.

Hey Penang,
Maybe work your frustrations into your NaNo.  A main character could be cussing over a site that keeps going down that he/she really needs or wants to get onto.  You could vent in your novel, with the added bonus of upping your word count each time the site goes down 

Ang,

I hope my post didn't seem rude.  I didn't mean it that way if it did.

I'm so excited!  Chris Angotti, the director of nano's young writers' program, is coming to visit my clas on Monday!  I told the kids the nano GOD is coming and since Monday is the 15th they'd BETTER be halfway done!!!!   hehe I'm evil like that