Lauren

Website: Orange Raspberry Lemonade

Posted September 28 2020

Please tell me this will be back for 2020! I need this for my blog.

Negrek _Admin

Website: Thousand Roads

Posted September 29 2020 in reply to Lauren

Unfortunately NaNo hasn't brought back the wordcount API, which is what makes the NaNoWriMon go. I'm exploring a couple of options for this year.

First, there's an unofficial, undocumented API that could theoretically work tead. Theoretically! It might end up not working at all, and even if it does, NaNo wouldn't necessarily be pleased with me for using it for this sort of thing. This could mean NaNo proper could end up shutting down the NaNoWriMon midseason.

Second, I could do something entirely self-hosted. This would have the advantage of being available at any time of the year, and you'd easily be able to customize your wordcount goal if you didn't want to go for 50k. The downside is it would be much less conenient: you couldn't update your wordcount on the NaNo site and have it reflected in the widget automatically, the way it's worked in the past; you'd have to update twice, once on each site. You'd also have to create an account on this site in order to create a NaNoWrimon instead of being able to do everything without logging in.

There'll be an announcement on this site closer to NaNo time once I've figured out what's going to be feasible. Won't be for another couple weeks, though!

Lauren

Website: Orange Raspberry Lemonade

Posted September 29 2020 in reply to Negrek

Thanks for the update! If it matters at all, I'd prefer to be able to set my own goal. My son and I will be doing it (and I know he'll love this) and his word goal with the young novelist program won't be 50k.

Negrek _Admin

Website: Thousand Roads

Posted September 30 2020 in reply to Lauren

That's good feedback, thank you!

Negrek _Admin

Website: Thousand Roads

Posted October 12 2020 in reply to Negrek

It doesn't look like custom word goals are going to be possible for the challenge this year, but they're definitely something I'll be looking to add in the future!

snowsparks

Posted October 09 2020

hey, I was wondering if this would be up for NaNoWriMo 2020? just wondering! :)

Negrek _Admin

Website: Thousand Roads

Posted October 12 2020 in reply to snowsparks

Yes! I'm working on updating the code now, but they should be ready to go for November.

snowsparks

Posted October 13 2020 in reply to Negrek

awesome, thanks!

Olivekat

Posted November 02 2020

Thank you for making these and updating them! I love them so much and they really add to my NaNo experience. :)

Negrek _Admin

Website: Thousand Roads

Posted November 03 2020 in reply to Olivekat

You're welcome! Glad you enjoy them. :)

Dicearoo

Posted November 03 2020

Hello. Is Nanowrimon still up? It tells me that my account, Une_Jonquille/Une Jonquille doesn't exist; when I tried changing it, it then said that I didn't have a project. I've really liked having Nanowrimon in the past, so I'd like if I could still use it! Thank you.

Negrek _Admin

Website: Thousand Roads

Posted November 04 2020 in reply to Dicearoo

Unfortunately NaNoWriMon only work with the official November challenge at the moment. Right now your only goal is a custom one, not associated with the official NaNo 2020 challenge.

In future years I hope to be able to support custom goals as well as Camp NaNo, etc., but right now the only way you'll be able to make a NaNoWriMon is if you create a goal officially associated with NaNo 2020.

ruuko

Posted November 06 2020

I can't seem to get this to work with my username (twelve-to-midnight). It keeps telling me that my username doesn't exist. I've tried spaces, underscores, and dashes, none of it works.

Negrek _Admin

Website: Thousand Roads

Posted November 06 2020 in reply to ruuko

Please post a link to your NaNo profie. I haven't been able to find you by searching the site.

ruuko

Posted November 06 2020 in reply to Negrek

Profile: https://nanowrimo.org/participants/twelve-to-midnight

Negrek _Admin

Website: Thousand Roads

Posted November 06 2020 in reply to ruuko

Hmm, nope, that's giving me a 404 error. Do you have your profile set to private, by any chance? I don't actually know what happens when you try to visit someone's private profile, but it's possible that's what's causing issues.

ruuko

Posted November 06 2020 in reply to Negrek

😳 I did not realize my account was set to private. I've unset it. Thank you!