During the early hours of the day today I had nothing but trouble getting a connection too FReeRepublic.It seemed like every time I tried to connect I would get a 502 Warning message.
I have No Idea what the 502 Message even involved but it was aggravating to say the least.
I have no problems with FR at all. Even on debate nights, I had little trouble. I have a modest machine running Firefox on w7, and a Verizon DSL connection which is not exactly their fastest pipe. I am no IT person. There are no problems loading. It’s not any slower than anything else. This suggests to me that other people may be having trouble related to their hardware, their software, their ISP, their browser, local traffic, or home conditions. (If you’re sharing your network with a teenage gamer, yes, he’s going to suck up all the bandwidth and it will be a nuisance. Ask me how I know!)
fundraiser.
Have seen the same thing since the second debate. it must be a DOS attack.
Often get the bad connect at initial loading or when going to “reply or preview and post”, reloading the page maybe works 1 out of 8 times.
Surely FR knows they are and have been having a serious problem. Would really be a nice jesture if someone @ FR posted what’s going on. Otherwise have to assume they have lost server accounts or are now working off an old Commador 64...
Seems to work great now.
FR is a very old web design that doesn’t use AJAX (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29). People are always reloading for the latest update and instead of fetching just the update, the entire page must be loaded. Unlike other popular conservative forums, FR allows links to images so this is another major factor.
This is the message that I frequently get when I try to bring up a FR story: “Failure To Connect To Web Server.” Is this what we’re talking about?
And yes, Mr. or Ms. SmartaZZ, I am logged in.
P.S. The above is what I also get as I try to post this message.
There is a psychology at work here, because we are attached to one another like pen pals, as well as to the fabulous format and the site info, which is available elsewhere. When I periodically can access, I am forced to use the site as a reference point to go elsewhere. Posting a comment is out of the question 95% of the time and I don’t see a useage increase. In fact, noticeably, I don’t see but few old regulars anymore.
My own critical problem has become intolerable since the day BEFORE the third debate. Debate night was out of the question. Eventually, I have to look at myself for tolerating bad service when there is no end in sight. Sadly, FR is shuttering itself and I feel terrible, as a teal addict might.
There is a psychology at work here, because we are attached to one another like pen pals, as well as to the fabulous format and the site info, which is available elsewhere. When I periodically can access, I am forced to use the site as a reference point to go elsewhere. Posting a comment is out of the question 95% of the time and I don’t see a useage increase. In fact, noticeably, I don’t see but few old regulars anymore.
My own critical problem has become intolerable since the day BEFORE the third debate. Debate night was out of the question. Eventually, I have to look at myself for tolerating bad service when there is no end in sight. Sadly, FR is shuttering itself and I feel terrible, as a teal addict might.
As a practicing FRoholic, I have learned to live with any problems FR might present ... I just have to get my daily fix. Complain if you must, I will just take all the FR I can get and accept any side effects. ;-)
There is a psychology at work here, because we are attached to one another like pen pals, as well as to the fabulous format and the site info, which is available elsewhere. When I periodically can access, I am forced to use the site as a reference point to go elsewhere. Posting a comment is out of the question 95% of the time and I don’t see a useage increase. In fact, noticeably, I don’t see but few old regulars anymore.
My own critical problem has become intolerable since the day BEFORE the third debate. Debate night was out of the question. Eventually, I have to look at myself for tolerating bad service when there is no end in sight. Sadly, FR is shuttering itself and I feel terrible, as a teal addict might.
There is a psychology at work here, because we are attached to one another like pen pals, as well as to the fabulous format and the site info, which is available elsewhere. When I periodically can access, I am forced to use the site as a reference point to go elsewhere. Posting a comment is out of the question 95% of the time and I don’t see a useage increase. In fact, noticeably, I don’t see but few old regulars anymore.
My own critical problem has become intolerable since the day BEFORE the third debate. Debate night was out of the question. Eventually, I have to look at myself for tolerating bad service when there is no end in sight. Sadly, FR is shuttering itself and I feel terrible, as a teal addict might.
There is a psychology at work here, because we are attached to one another like pen pals, as well as to the fabulous format and the site info, which is available elsewhere. When I periodically can access, I am forced to use the site as a reference point to go elsewhere. Posting a comment is out of the question 95% of the time and I don’t see a useage increase. In fact, noticeably, I don’t see but few old regulars anymore.
My own critical problem has become intolerable since the day BEFORE the third debate. Debate night was out of the question. Eventually, I have to look at myself for tolerating bad service when there is no end in sight. Sadly, FR is shuttering itself and I feel terrible, as a teal addict might.
There is a psychology at work here, because we are attached to one another like pen pals, as well as to the fabulous format and the site info, which is available elsewhere. When I periodically can access, I am forced to use the site as a reference point to go elsewhere. Posting a comment is out of the question 95% of the time and I don’t see a useage increase. In fact, noticeably, I don’t see but few old regulars anymore.
My own critical problem has become intolerable since the day BEFORE the third debate. Debate night was out of the question. Eventually, I have to look at myself for tolerating bad service when there is no end in sight. Sadly, FR is shuttering itself and I feel terrible, as a teal addict might.
I don’t understand why I’m not experiencing the problems mentioned. I have no issues with slow loads or errant postings. My connection works fine.
Try This
Hit the story you want. Wait about 1.5 secs
Hit your stop load button
Hit story again
Loads right away
What’s weird is I’m having no problems on my iPad, only my PC.
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It's filled with supposed conservatives who will vote for a dyed in the wool liberal no questions asked.
If you are running IE, clean your cache (Delete Temporary files) and in the Settings area, make sure it has “Check for new pages on each visit” or something like that. IE is terrible if it is set to “Automatic” which is the default.
I’ve been getting bad gateway pages