>>$uccinct answer is folks like ME not contributing enough. Free Republic operates solely on contributions and to the best of my knowledge and reading experience, has no advertising revenue. It ain’t no clogomerate, it’s more family business of sorts.<<
With receipts of $340k a year. That should be enough income to buy some top class servers and correct the problems that so many people are having.
I would be very surprised if this was server-related. It looks very much like a software problem.