my guess when I heard about the attack on free republic was that this was a big news night detrimental to the democrat party. I have noticed a pattern of this site being attacked or having equipment failures corresponding to bad news about the Clintons or the democratic party.
There was a post on FR with links to the arrest warrant for Awan. I downloaded the files and than sent the link to 1 person as a direct message on Twitter. I had a lot of connection problems beginning then.
And some fake 404 error messages and router poisoning. That would not be the first time for either of those to happen to me.
Paranoid? no
Weird? Yes it is. But this Seth Rich thing affects lots of once powerful people.
Odd I thought it only had problems when the fund raisers were going on. Besides 4chan and reddit are bigger threats to the DNC agenda than FR is.