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

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

[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!

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[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.