YMMV.
Started before the 2008 election but the was the peak of dog pilling.
Many, many Freepers faded away in that time period. The Tour de France and Survivor threads used to have many, many pages of posts by the time the show was over. Now we’re lucky to have one page.
The quarterly fundraisers used to take a couple of weeks - now they take 3 months.
And the CTH discussion software is a disaster, not even comparing it to Free Republic. On its own it is unwieldy, unable to be followed, and difficult to access.
Free Republic, otoh, has the best discussion software on the internet, far better even than facebook. If he ever sold it, JR would be a wealthy man.
Web analyst, Alexa, lists Free Republic as the #6 conservative site on the web. CTH is lower than #50.
https://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Society/Politics/Conservatism
For the record, I’m a huge fan of Sundance. His web site, however, really is lousy. Much easier to follow him on twitter.
Freepathons take so long because there are a lot of freepaloaders
What is YMMV.?