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.

[MeekMom]

Thank you Jim Rob!
God bless you, this site and our Republic!

Meeky

[tomkat]

FReeper Jelibn's excellent & time-tested backup site .. she's a peach !   :^)

altfreerepublic

[tsowellfan]

Thanks, Jim! Last night I was having troubles but it was my connection to the internet in general. It was a breezy night. In my town if you sneeze the power goes out. I’m surprised I have connection right now with the winds from the oncoming hurricane.

[GeronL]

I have been there but ever since I lost my password, I never could reset it

[tomkat]

So sign up again, yo ?!

[SoldierDad]

Ping for later

[DoughtyOne]

Thank you Jim.

[prisoner6]

Thanks JR. Several FR subgroups are also set up especially on FB. They work but nothing beats the real thing!

Dittos on the tips to speed page loading. I never thought about it speeding things up but recently I have not been using the sidebar much.

Also I never load the text option, only the headlines.

As soon asI get back to my desktop pc I’ll make the changes.

[lonevoice]

Thank you, Jim.

[raybbr]

Be warned though, going to those groups will get you spam from "Rich Martin" and "Rahmath Nisha" among others...

Anyone know how to stop them??????

[tomkat]

I first signed up at FR in mid '98, then moved to go back to school, was w/o pc access for a few months, and then couldn't remember my password !

Handle was oldsoph (?), but tried a jillion possibilities and never could get the pw right.

A source of bitterness ever since .. lol

[onyx]

B T T T ! ! ! ©
Sarah Palin's Ping List

[ShadowAce]

[cripplecreek]

Funny thing is that I’m not really having major issues.

The occasional slow or failure to load. (but I am nearly 50 years old)

[rawcatslyentist]

A couple of suggestions to possibly make your pages load faster

[NewJerseyJoe]

P4L

[100American]

Jim how do I change my login on Yahoo to match the one I have here, it is not at all clear how to do so over there

Thanks

[livius]

My Yahoo name is different too. However, if you want FReepers to know who you are, why don’t you just put that in parentheses after your post. It might be easier than changing your name.

[Bushbacker1]

Is this site planning on going downnnnn again? Regardless, thanks for the reminder for alternate sites.

[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.

[Bushbacker1]

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!

[Bushbacker1]

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...

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Jim how do I change my login on Yahoo to match the one I have here?” <<

.
Easy. - Just sign up a new account on yahoo, or ymail.com

[FreedomPoster]

I can’t believe they haven’t shut down Groups or improved the software in years - or that anyone uses it much.

[don-o]

How sad is that?

[lwoodham]

Thank you Jim. Both bookmarked.

[tomkat]

John, not trying to be facetious in the least, but is there any chance things in here could go whack when, like right now,
the FR system clock appears to be running almost two minutes ahead of time.windows.com (which, I would imagine, is mirroring one of the .gov atomic gizmos) ?

[dayglored]

> ... I use Firefox 16.0.2 (compiled from source) on a homegrown Linux platform where I run my own nameserver.

In my experience websurfing, with Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and Unix machines, and all manner of browsers, the single most important performance improvement you can make is FAST NAME SERVICE.

You've got the best -- your own nameserver. I've done at at times in the past, myself.

Away from home or if you don't have your own local nameserver, I recommend Google's Public DNS nameservers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4). They're available from anywhere with response limited only by your internet connection.

Yes, that means Google can see where you're going, if they want to keep stats. I don't care, I don't surf pr0n.

I very rarely find FreeRepublic response time to be too long to put up with. Most times, the clean spare design is way ahead of the fancier formatted sites.

[PatriotGirl827]

bookmark

[ElkGroveDan]

I don’t think this is enough. When the jack-booted crackdown comes it’s going to be the entire internet. We need an agreed-upon short-wave frequency, as well as a universal call-sign that we can all recognize.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks JimRob. G'night all. Ping to all lists.

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[martin_fierro]

Hear, hear. Jelibean’s site is better than that awful Yahoo one.