In order to widen my horizon a bit I thought I'd create a Navicache account. Thinking about it was the only easy part.
I filled in the form but it wouldn't accept the "&" I wanted to put in the first name. No problem, I changed it to "and". But then it wouldn't accept the CAPTCHA word even though I could clearly see it was correct and the same as it had previously been (which it says it wouldn't be). I tried a couple more times to submit it and then it said "too many attempts try again in 30 seconds".
So I waited a couple of minutes and then successfully created the account after refreshing the page because it was still showing the previous information even though I was using a new IE window.
But the verification email didn't arrive and on checking the form I found I'd put "@@" in the email field. No problem, I thought, I'll just log in and fix it. Nope, NC won't even let you log in until the account has been verified. Catch-22.
So I've sent them an email and I'll see what happens.
And during this whole process I several times received the "too many attempts try again in 30 seconds" message. If I can only use NC a few pages at a time then it's not much use.
Fine, so the error in email address was mine but if I hadn't needed to enter the information several times then I might not have made it. And the page doesn't refresh properly, and the 30 seconds limit is really daft.
Not impressed so far, and I haven't even managed to look at any caches yet.