[lacrew]

I actually like this format. Oh well.

[nikos1121]

I’d like to see an app added so it would easier to access it my by iphone.

[thefactor]

And where’s my “Like” button?!?!

[Mr. K]

Free Republic is in need of some new functionality.

I ALSO think it would not be objectionalble to accept advertizing - we love capitalism here.

Free Republic does what Facebook does and did it earier. Facebook is worth billons and FR has to go begging each quarter.

This is too important of a site to have these kinds of problems 20 years into its existance.

[rjsimmon]

How about moving to Arizona? Or Texas?

[mountn man]

Just go to mail and post to Jim Robinson

[cartan]

Is BBCode so much better than HTML? I don’t think so…

[Robert A Cook PE]

Pay Up!

A few thousand dollars donated today will do your request a lot of good. (That’s WHY today’s political elites going back to the Roman era had rich allies and billionaire-party fund raisers.)

[Fiddlstix]

HTML Help Threads & Other Info for Newbies
(And Anyone Else Who Needs It )
Just Click The Links Below For The Threads

• The HTML Campfire

• Formatting Messages with Outlook Express (HTML Bootcamp)

• HTML Sandbox (Original Thread)

• HTML Sandbox (Thread Two)

• HTML Sandbox (Thread Three)

• HTML Sandbox (Thread Four)

• HTML Sandbox (Thread Five)

• HTML Sandbox 2008

• HTML Sandbox 2010

• HTML Sandbox 2011

• HTML Sandbox 2013

• HTML Sandbox 2014

• HTML Sandbox 2015

• HTML Sandbox 2016

• Reference HTML Cheatsheet

These are the current active threads.
Most of the older HTML Bootcamp and
HTML Campfire Threads are no longer active links.
Those have been removed over time.

Fiddlstix ©

Also This for New Freepers

• Fifth Edition of the Lexicon of FreeRepublic * A helpful FR dictionary for newcomers

• FREEREPUBLIC LEXICON (FReeper Lingo, Dictionary, Lore Handbook)

• Updated FR Excerpt and Link Only or Deny Posting List due to Copyright Complaints

• Way too many duplicates and vanities. Please read - again. (Welcome Newbies)

• Posting refresher course - Please read

• The Proper Care and Feeding of the Free Republic Keyword Feature

Fiddlstix ©

Even More Info For New Freepers

• Nully's Quick FR HTML Guide

• HTML Goodies Tutorials

• HTML Special Characters

• HTML Colors Chart

• Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

• FReeper Mycroft_Holmes FR Page
  (Very Good Info HTML, Java, SQL, Etc.)

Fiddlstix ©

[editor-surveyor]

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Go where your heart is.

The FR forum is the very best.

The crap you call ‘modern’ sucks to the max, and is all an attempt to plagiarize what we have here without violating the copyright.
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[Spruce]

I disagree. Especially the advertising suggestion. Probably one of the worst ideas ever

[Baynative]

In the past I have suggested adding an edit function.

But, in using other websites for discussion, I have changed my mind and think it is better to learn to proof read what we are posting and make sure we are happy with content as well as spelling and grammar.

I've witnessed other discussions where people have gone back and edited their comments to give a different impression of what they said.

Also; being able to only upload photos from an open source has a security measure that helps keep things a little cleaner most of the time.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

On yer bike...

[Democrats hate too much]

"6. that has a Search function"

-Best conservative website in the world in my opinion however I feel like the search functionality use to be better in 2000. Seems like we were better able to search all posts, titles and comments for a word.

[gunnyg]

simplicity and continuity...like the old pre-radio crystal set; the comuter has never achied that, and likely will not...

Just plain Dick @ Planet WTF!
aka: Gunny G: AMERICAN!
No AINOs!

[Fresh Wind]

Make Free Republic Usenet again!

(Yeah, I’ve been here a while.)

[AndyJackson]

Hands down this forum is the most readable and easily usable of any "social media" website around.

Topics are easy to find and the flow of posts is simple to understand.

Anything can be improved, but careful. It would be easy to break it.

[cyclotic]

I love the simplicity of the current FR. I hate websites that try to be everything. They are slow and harder to navigate.

FR is nearly perfect. Leave it alone.

[Responsibility2nd]

1. has functions which are easy to see/find and invoke

I visit other forums and sites. Nobody else has "Pings" that are as user friendly as here.

2. allows easier upload of pictures

<img.....> is too hard? Really? You know there are online and web based sites that are even easier than the img html.

3. that allows email notification of replies to comments

That last thing anyone needs is more email cluttering up their in boxes.

4. that allows editing after a comment is posted

Yeah, that would be OK, but we do have a preview. Use it.

5. that has text editing features so one doesn't need to know HTML code in order to add emphasis.

Again, there are hundreds of free download sites. Who needs to know html??

6. that has a Search function for previous posts

Google advance Search is your friend.

7. that is easier to navigate to the specialty forums such as "Gods, Graves, Glyphs", which, had it not been mentioned in a random post, I never would have found here on FR.

Freep much? GGG has been a fixture for years.

 

 

Got any more complaints? I got more snarky answers. lol

 

 

[Mr. Douglas]

Even the ubiquitous, but ultra useful and reliable Checker Cab bit the dust. It will happen to this format, eventually. So far it still works, but as the outside world continues to improve, it will eventually feel too clumsy to use. It’s already reaching that point.

The problem is (and I could be wrong) that it is based on a foundational paradigm that would need a project to completely throw out the old system and incorporate a new one with completely different knowledge base needs.

It’s like having software supported by the same solid staff of COBOL programmers and deciding to dump it for C# backed MVC with cloud based storage. YOu don’t make that decision lightly.

I’ve posted four topics on a couple of other sites just today. It’s just too difficult here to bother. I just wait for someone else to do it.