Free Republic.com is Dying (Daily Kooks mention us)

Daily Kooks | Sat May 9, 2009 | The Red Pen

[Tzimisce]

Most people on Daily Kos are (painfully) aware of Free Republic, the bottomless digital repository of bigotry, authoritarianism and hatred for most other Americans, all wrapped in 90's-era HTML. Usually, sane people who stop by there to check it out, find something utterly appalling within a few minutes of browsing, and close the page, never to return. Thus, there isn't a lot of detailed knowledge of Free Republic on Daily Kos.

One important feature of the site is that it is community-supported through donation drives called "Freepathons." In 2008, Jim Robinson, the site founder, seems to have decided to purge the archives of all but the current and most-recent Freepathon threads. This is a wise decision on his part because you don't have to go back very far to see that Free Republic is struggling to meet its modest fundraising goals.

[Tzimisce]

Won't let me post a link, but we're mentioned on the top ten list at DailyKos - thought you'd be interested.

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[sinanju]

They forgot to claim that all Freepers are around sixty-seven years old.

Just like the latest Vanity Fair issue claimed about Rush listners.

Perhaps I should dye my hair grey, grow a ponytail and shave the forward half of my pate.

[HiTech RedNeck]

No more old stuff? I didn’t even notice.

The people date back to 1998.

[PERKY2004]

“We’re not dead yet”

[doc1019]

Free Republic.com is Dying

Who knew?

[sageb1]

Shall I bring back the ACLU ads that appeared on DKos?

[gigster]

Hey, I resemble that statement!

[max americana]

I’m dying alright.....of laughter after reading some of the absurd Daily Krazy threads.

[LiteKeeper]

Did someone forget to tell us?

[sageb1]

Without Soros, Kos wouldn’t exist.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It’s taking longer for freepathons to get to their goal, largely because of the pinched economy.

However, this would be chump change for the likes of Rush Limbaugh. Has Jim Rob thought of knocking on his door?

[Las Vegas Ron]

Projection

[timestax]

WELL, at least WE do pay our Federal Income Taxes!

[fieldmarshaldj]

DailyKos ? That and the Huffinglue Post make Perez Hilton look respectable.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Kos and Puffington Host are such incredibly BUSY web pages. I don’t mean busy with people, I mean busy with clutter.

[RepublicanChick]

Wow, fearful much? Nope, nothing to gain except to post an inane column about the withering of FR, RIGHT!

This is a wonderful site and even though I am HTML challenged, I love the format. Thanks JR!

[Tamar1973]

They’re cluttered with advertisements.

[SIDENET]

Wow. The Daily Kos sucks.

Even DU has a better format.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Wait, I thought they hated capitalism.

[BIGLOOK]

I'm not dead yet....really! I'm feeling much better....

[Plutarch]

...all wrapped in 90's-era HTML.

I use a lot of other forums with up-to-date software. But there is no beating the flexibility here.

On another forum I've tried posting a table. Can't be done. There, here's a table:

	Users	Traffic	Profanity	Flexibility
Free Republic	Smart	Massive	Hardly	HTML rocks
DU	Dumb	Feeble	F yeah	Who knows?

[dayglored]

> ...wrapped in 90's-era HTML

And I say "HURRAY FOR THAT!". I can read FreeRepublic on my handheld, I can load pages on anyone's computer with speed unmatched by the "fancier" formatted blogs.

As far as I'm concerned, FreeRepublic's format is THE BEST for this sort of thing. If FR ever adopts the cluttered, ad-ridden crap formats of these other sites, I'll be reading it a lot less.

[PERKY2004]

LOL! I love it!!!!!

[anniegetyourgun]

I’m only mostly dead.

[txroadkill]

Most people on Daily Kos are (painfully) aware of Free Republic...

Hehe. not as painfully as CBS is, but keep posting BS stories and they'll find out how painful being aware of Free Republic can be.

[HiTech RedNeck]

It’s better than the wild old days where an HTML gaffe could screw up the entire rest of the thread, until somebody posted appropriate tag closes.

[Brad's Gramma]

Yabut, you’ll NEVER be as old as Gramps!

:)
:)
:)

[anniegetyourgun]

Well, especially since I’m not even a grandmother!

[Marie2]

I love the format on this site and hope it doesn’t change. As soon as I get hubby’s med bills paid off I look forward to donating. I am sorry to see the folks at DU have such a narrow minded view of FR. Seriously. There is a pretty wide diversity of opinion here, and lots of well thought out posts.

I have seen plenty of posts supportive of Romney and Giuliani, so I find it hard to believe a person is banned if they happen to support either man politically.

Myself, I’d vote for either one were they the nominee.

[dayglored]

> They forgot to claim that all Freepers are around sixty-seven years old.

AND POST IN OUR PAJAMAS!

[americanophile]

Whatever. You can learn everything you need to know by just looking at the names...’Free Republic’ an idea, versus ‘Daily Kos’ a vanity.

[txroadkill]

Oh don’t be such a baby!

[Brad's Gramma]

LOL!!!

Well then!

:)

[AnotherUnixGeek]

all wrapped in 90's-era HTML.

Lame criticism. Way too many web sites larded with needless Ajax, Flex, Silverlight cruft.

[Tamar1973]

Well, they like green.

[Myrddin]

The ability to post in HTML is helpful. I write most of my web pages directly, so the using HTML daily on FR keeps my skills fresh. My wife and kids play with Facebook and MySpace. I haven't been attracted to those sites. They are easy to use, so I'm spared the need to offer constant technical support while they play. FR has a great breadth of knowledge in the user population.

The only thing I miss in the FR interface is the ability to edit my own posts after spotting a spelling or grammar error. The immutable nature of a post is sometimes frustrating.

[txroadkill]

AND POST IN OUR PAJAMAS!

You don't post naked?!?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Romney and Giuilani, etc. boosters will get hissed and booed around here, but not banned.

[KLT]

Who is this daily Kook, sounds more like a wicked lib who is trying to start trouble...bet he/she/it or whatever it is lurks, infiltrates and masquerades as a person with a brain...well they should kiss me where the sun don’t shine....

[Slings and Arrows]

AND POST IN OUR PAJAMAS!

...how a post got into my pajamas I'll never know.

[HiTech RedNeck]

You do get a last chance in preview. It’s easy to get overconfident and check the box. If I were king, I would force anything having HTML in it to go through preview.

[Myrddin]

Lame criticism. Way too many web sites larded with needless Ajax, Flex, Silverlight cruft.

I agree. This afternoon I was seeking information on the CanAm Spyder. I found the site. The author felt the need to stream engine sounds in the background. That sucked up lots of bandwidth. I would have enjoyed viewing the camera shots driving the Spyder, but all the other junk locked up Firefox 3.0.0.10. I was finally able to pluck the PDF file with the specs. Sometimes simple is better. Too much "cruft" makes a site unusable. FR is just sophisticated enough to deliver what I want to see without bogging down the browser with unnecessary network and CPU bandwidth hogs.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Like national security documents got into Sandy Berger’s pants?

[Marie2]

The DU thread said Jim Robinson banned them. Well, another day, another lie, I guess.

[Global2010]

Interesting.

Carville said all the Tea Bag Party members were 75 year old men.

So is this the latest attack from the left.

We are all just a bunch of senile old men?
Creeps.

[icwhatudo]

Claims we are falling but admits we have become more popular then them.

Makes fun of HTML skills but then screws up the Alexa link.

Here’s something else from the 90’s-ROTFLMAO!

[HiTech RedNeck]

Funny thing, it will probably get a few more people curious about FR. If the twit was truly calculating about his/her purported mission, FR would never get mentioned.

[Crim]

BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

*snort*

BUWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Myrddin]

You do get a last chance in preview. It’s easy to get overconfident and check the box. If I were king, I would force anything having HTML in it to go through preview.

I always post with HTML and always read the preview. Sometimes that isn't enough. When you write something, it's possible to have your mind "fill in" the missing parts when "proofreading". You see what you want to see, not what is actually present. The final post appears a bit different from the preview. Sometimes you spot the goof at that time. It's too late.

[dayglored]

> You don't post naked?!?

Only when I have the webcam unplugged. Ya never can trust those damn webcams...