The alternate site was not that good, very few posts I saw, like 4 or 5.
A forum doesn't magically appear all on its own, for your personal benefit and enjoyment. It takes the participation of lots of people to create. You could have helped make it happen.
If you'd stuck around a while at altFreeRepublic yesterday, you would have seen it growing by the hour as more and more Freepers found their way there.
A couple of us went to the Yahoo group and posted the URL so others could find us. Jelibn took the responsibility to put up a proper forum, all on his own, so that we had somewhere to organize our discussions. Much, much better than the "group" platform over at Yahoo.
So, did you find someplace to gather with other Freepers yesterday, besides the dreaded Yahoo group?