Free Republic Shuts Down (literally, their website)

[CthulhusEvilCousin]

Freepers mad at forum owner for website freezing up totally during debate. Few people able to post on their forum due to high traffic, despite the fact the 'Freepathons" raise something like 80 thousand dollars every quarter straight from the pockets of its posters. One wonders where all that money is going.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2943624/posts

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2943599/posts

To: hole_n_one
FR is never there when you really need it. It’s getting ridiculous. It does make me wonder where my donations go.

I am far from a computer expert. But there are chat room programs that hold thousands of people for instant discussion. Should FR use one of those style rooms, and only open it up for live threads or big disasters like 911? There must be a low cost way for us to communicate in real time.

I look forward to live threads but I guess I shouldn’t bother. Election night, oh how sad that will be. even if we win, FR will be down.


32 posted on Thu Oct 11 2012 22:51:24 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by Yaelle

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Did anyone have any problems getting into DU? I sure didn't, and our live threads were loaded with posts, unlike Free Republic.

[Wounded Bear]

1. You say that like it's a BAD thing......

[mike_c]

2. dinosaurs....

Ugh.

[aletier_v]

3. I read FR often. I'm pretty sure Robinson is using this as a tactic

to scare his readers into donating more money.


He basically shut down FR for several days during the last freepathon, until people coughed up the cash.

[CthulhusEvilCousin]

20. That's an interesting theory

and you are probably correct. I also agree that the echo-chamber has become progressively worse on that forum.

[Dawson Leery]

4. FReepers call their site "Premiere"!

"How does the premiere conservative site on the 'net continue to fail?"

A 16 year old website that has not been once updated is "premiere"?

Conservatives are not with the times.

[jmowreader]

21. I think it is the premiere site

Premiere means "first."

Premier means "best."

I believe it was the former; it definitely is not the latter.

And it continues to fail because it continues to be hosted on a Commodore 64.

[SnohoDem]

26. And it continues to fail because it continues to be hosted on a Commodore 64.

Yeah, but if he makes enough from the next freepathon, rimjob's promised to update to a genuine IBM PC XT - he just needs a little help with the software.

[Wait Wut]

5. Priceless.

"The clean design of Free Republic means a fast, more responsive source for breaking news and informed opinion. "

Even better? I think he's serious!!!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

6. 2000 called and said

"1990 called and they want their website back.

[gkhouston]

7. It's hard to imagine the FR would need the capacity for thousands of simultaneous users.

Unless they're handing out accounts to porta-potties.

[aletier_v]

9. Over the past several years, FR has driven the libertarian Republicans away

I thought they'd show a serious decrease in traffic on Alexa but I haven't seen it happen yet, I don't know why.

I do know FR acts more like an echo chamber every week, but nobody there can see it because they're part of the echo.

[budkin]

8. One of the most poorly designed sites ever

Totally not user friendly.

[Indpndnt]

10. I sure don't wonder where all of their donations are going. They're going right in Rimjob's pocket.

And he laughs his ass off all the way to the bank. Freeptrash get the service they deserve: None.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

30. The funny thing is the guy is complaining to someone with a golf reference in their handle.

And it doesn't even click that his money is paying for country club membership.

[begin_within]

11. The home page of DU was intentionally turned off during the debate

The forum was still running fine. But the main page had a message that it was turned off to save bandwidth.

[aletier_v]

13. FR was intermittent dropping page requests two months ago

I'm about 95% sure it's deliberate.

About every 3rd page load would fail.

It seemed too contrived to be an accident.

[SunSeeker]

12. Right wingers can't run a website, let alone our government.

[begin_within]

14. The good news is that FR just upgraded to this:

[KT2000]

15. LOL!

[Astazia]

32. ROTFLMFAO!!!!

Day'um I missed this last week but that is so fuckin' funny!

[davidn3600]

16. I guess they cant afford the bandwidth. What are they doing with all that money they raise?

[Historic NY]

17. Maybe we can offer them a crying room for 80 grand.

[2on2u]

28. Mebbe they could use the lounge..... when it isn't too awful busy.... maybe they could learn

something or not. It would be funny though, several of them coming over to the lounge cuz fr can't handle their whining.

[davidpdx]

18. Where does the money go that is donated to Free Republic?

It does make me wonder where my donations go.

Probably drugs, hookers, and booze

[bushisanidiot]

19. Ryan was getting his ass kicked and freepers were nervous so the shut it down

they are a bunch of liars, just like their candidates ryan and romney.
i also SINCERELY doubt that they raised anywhere near the amount
of money they claim to. those racist idiots don't want to pay taxes
they are tight with their money and probably don't even donate to
ryan/romney. they probably don't even have an actual server.

smoke and mirrors.

[TroyD]

27. Did they really shut it down because of the VP Debate?

What would be the purpose of that?

It's not like it could help Ryan.

Are they ?

[CreekDog]

22. they should shut off the spell checking feature

besides, it only checks for misspellings, it doesn't correct them.

[lillypaddle]

23. This is very, very sad.

Maybe that's why we've had so many trolls. They can't get on FR so they come here.

[NYC Liberal]

25. FR's solution? "Donate more!"

What's the Point of Donating If We Can't Access This Site at Peak Times?
Donate more!

[bushisanidiot]

29. HAHAHA!

Those guys are such suckers.

[madrchsod]

31. where it`s going? to bad the freepers are so dense they can`t read...

rimjob and friends were on a political junket (vacation) to texas several weeks ago. he posted this fact on his website but i guess no one noticed.

[BlueJazz]

33. Part of their problem is their ISP wiring..

[ailsagirl]

35. Talk about 'getting their wires crossed!'

Little wonder their website is so unreliable!

[Mutiny In Heaven]

34. Are they serious?! "It does make me wonder where my donations go."

Really? You haven't smelt a rat yet?

Still, that's unregulated, cutthroat capitalism for ya! Live by the sword, die by the sword, Fuckweasel.