um… so i just made a new topic and posted it but when i went to the topic it was blank, as in there were no posts at all, not even mine. i'm not sure if i just can't see it or if the post is not there at all, so i tried replying to the topic and i got "error: you can't post here!" so idk i'm not really sure what that's all about or what to do about it.

also the topic itself shows up under "recent topics" but the original post i made in that topic isn't showing up under "recent posts"

It's possible that the post was accidentally deleted (this will happen if the post is deleted, but the thread isn't). :(

I would suggest filing a ticket and asking them to completely delete/lock the thread that is missing the post.

thanks, i filed a ticket and got the thread deleted. what an odd occurrence, though. i wonder how it happened.