FR- will this site be accessible come election day?

11-04-12 | Me

[Kevin in California]

FR has been very unstable the last week or so. Will it be able to sustain the heavy traffic come election day or will it crash it?

Anyone else know an alternate site just in case?

[Calusa]

F’shzzle!!!!!

[HerrBlucher]

If I can’t get on FR I am going to DU to watch the collapse. It is going to be spectacular.

[illiac]

You might try reading the top of the main page for alternate sites.....:)

[CrazyIvan]

Think two girl brothel with the fleet just in.

[Truth29]

Query Free Republic on facebook, also Freerepublic2 in Yahoo groups. Beyond that it is the competition such as Red State or Liberty Post.

[Steelfish]

battlegroundwatch.com

[bmwcyle]

Will you be logged in?

[FLCowboy,]

GOPBriefingRoom.com

[null and void]

On the 29th, one of my contacts said:

Been doing tracert to FR from command prompt. Interesting results. The problem is NOT FR's servers. It's the internet backbone itself. It's as if traffic to FR and other sites that have been critical of Dear Leader has been... helped.

To which he added today (10/29/12):

DemUn was rather fast last I was able to check.

Now isn't that a remarkable coinky-dink?

I wouldn't be surprised if the interwebs, or at least conservative sites, went down HARD mid-day Tuesday and stayed down until well after the final results are announced.

[madison10]

Freerepublic on Facebook and there is a Freerepublic Yahoo Group.

[Melinda in TN]

It’s been unstable for more than a week. I couldn’t get on for either of the three debates and several times before that.

I’m relying on Free Republic on Facebook now most of the time.

[null and void]

Update was 11/1/12...

[tomkat]

altfreerepublic

A PHP board started & maintained by a FReeper .. *much* better than that yahoo CF, imho !

[ErnBatavia]

More like two years....very disappointed, given the upped quarterly fundraising quotas to get things “fixed”.

[lightman]

I’m registered, same screen name.

Thanks for the back-up!

[tomkat]

Prolly see ya over there .. will check in here off/on, but won’t be holding my breath.

[FreedomPoster]

From the main forum page:

Click here for: Suggestions to possibly make your FR pages load faster (Do it Now!)

Do it! Do it now!

I suspect if we get a high percentage of users to do this, we will muddle through this election. I KNOW stripping my forum view way down has greatly helped page loads for me.

[HereInTheHeartland]

“If I can’t get on FR I am going to DU to watch the collapse. It is going to be spectacular.”

Let's hope. Just think about if our side doesn't win, and Obama has 4 more years come 11-7.
Pray.....

[ozaukeemom]

I doubt I will even try. Honestly. Too frustrating getting the same error messages over and over.