Free Republic contingency pages on facebook and yahoo

[Jim Robinson]

Yes, we do have a Free Republic page on facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/groups/26012226159/

And also on Yahoo:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/freerepublic2/

You may wish to visit and bookmark both.

[KC_Lion]

Always good to know Onyx.

Keep up the Great work! :)

[Jim Robinson]

Not planning on going down, but we’re already running slow and we’re still a week out from the elections.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Well, as many of us Florida Freepers gather on Election Night, we’ll continue to monitor this site for updates. Quite a big “to-do” next Tuesday!

[Road Warrior ‘04]

BTW, everything seems to run faster and better on Firefox. I have FR up on IE and also on Firefox and Firefox is way outperforming IE.

[tomkat]

I ran / posted tracerts on two of the debate threads, with similar results confirmed by info posted by others, and the nodes at ntt.net (mainly) and verio.net (lesser extent) have consistently been a huge drag on transit times.

. . not to mention the frequent time-outs on the Chicongo hubs

click

/.02

[DoughtyOne]

I set this up months ago, and folks are free to use the site if they wish.

http://www.twitter.com/GippervilleUSA

[mmichaels1970]

I ran / posted tracerts on two of the debate threads, with similar results confirmed by info posted by others, and the nodes at ntt.net (mainly) and verio.net (lesser extent) have consistently been a huge drag on transit times.

Which leads you to believe that this is a service provider issue rather than a server issue, correct?

A partner and I once had a server collocated at a shoddy service provider. We couldn't figure out why all of our sites and services were constantly going down and dragging. We were driving 30 minutes to the collocation site almost once a week to restart.

Eventually we changed our collocation site along with service provider. It was a real pain because we had to reroute all of our DNS traffic to a new IP range. But once we did that, the server practically ran 24/7.

We were small-scale by comparison, but once we got rid of the old service provider we felt completely relieved and the stress was dramatically reduced.

[re_nortex]

Not planning on going down, but we’re already running slow and we’re still a week out from the elections.

While the tip about the other sites is very much appreciated, nothing beats the Real McCoy. I must be in the minority since I can't even recall (if ever) the last occasion when Free Republic has 404'd or 503'd. The clean layout and John's code makes FR the must-read, go-to address on the web for fast-breaking, accurate news and informed Conservative opinion. Free Republic has been dependable and, like a privately-owned water, utility, it's consistently always on when I need it. For what it's worth, I use Firefox 16.0.2 (compiled from source) on a homegrown Linux platform where I run my own nameserver.

I did hope over to freerepublic2 to take a peek. There are a lot of puffed-up, self-proclaimed "experts" and would-be consultants. No thanks! You and John are doing a tremendous job against all odds and I think any outsider would merely muck up a good thing. After all, this is the site that brought down Dan Rather and will eject Obama from office. Neither yahoo nor facebook have that kind of influence.

[Reddy]

Can we decide on an alternate for ll/6? Everyone want to meet on FB or Yahoo if the site is slow due to traffic?

[re_nortex]

Corrections to my own borderline illiterate post...with apologies to all for the errors:

s/privately-owned water, utility/privately-owned water utility/

s/did hope over to freerepublic2/did hop over to freerepublic2/

Thank goodness the Free Republic backend scripts aren't written in Python. One misplaced tab character and down goes the dungeon. -- JAPH

[SaraJohnson]

Sorry you and John are having a hard time.

[smokingfrog]

I can read FR on my iPod Touch, but Firefox, IE and Opera all seem to choke and time-out. I don’t get it.

[Brett66]

Bump for later reference.

[Batman11]

pfl

[FreedomPoster]

If that works, I’ll be there if FR is down/unacceptable slow. ANYTHING is better than Yahoo groups.

[Revel]

Strange that Day after day there are hours that go by when I can’t get on FR. And I know from reading that I am not the only one. And yet it is obvious that some people are able to get on when we can not. Then suddenly-—Poof-— And it come back for awhile. Sometimes erratically with delays, And sometimes it will be almost normal.

[library user]

A user told me a while ago to put https before the FR URL to have better odds at connecting. Not sure if that’s an old wives tale or not. :O)

[tomkat]

That yahoo mess sux beyond words .. not to mention yahoo itself being part of the enemy camp.

[Manic_Episode]

Had a great time on FB last week during Mondays debate.

[houeto]

Hey Jim, I made the settings changes that you recommended earlier and it sped up page loading tremendously. I don't notice a difference in trying to post though. Mainly I've just not made any comments unless I just couldn't help myself.

Anyway, you might think about putting that other thread on Breaking News as well as this one. If enough Freepers make the changes the posting speeds might increase as well.

Just my 2 cents...