I just read all your posts. The assumption is that up to date forum software can’t be made to look and feel simple or fast loading or Android/phone friendly. This is not the case. Forum software is customizable. A user can have a choice between HTML and Java versions of the same site.
Comments that a learning curve to use FR means people are dedicated and committed to their principles is bogus. This is a digital medium in the Digital Age and if it ain’t at your fingertips, you won’t grow the site by attracting a younger demographic. Obsolescence is avoidable, but only at the cost of removing obsolete memes. FR will ultimately emulate the biology of its remaining users, do a MacArthur, grow old and fade away.
Secondary comments about ads and ad revenue assume that the admins wouldn’t be able to select ads based on how FR should look and feel. This is a reaction to past media uptake and not intrinsic to how ad content can be required to behave, ie., reactionary.
The only salient criticism is that any upgrade to FR would be expensive, would rely on outside tech support and possibly compromise security. The upgrade can be crowd sourced and the talent pool of trustworthy conservatives can’t be that impoverished.
Basically I see conservatives doing here with this thread what they do best, hunker down, grip what is familiar and let faster moving elements run circles around us like them goofy technophobe hippies did back in the 1960’s making us pull Trump’s victory off by the skin of our teeth 50 years later while them paradigm busting lefties gained near total hegemony over academia, the press, youth culture, entertainment, urban governments, etc.
If there is one thing we can learn from Donald Trump, it’s that we can bust the paradigm and win.
so in other words you want to ignore the vast majority of Freepers and force a change because YOU want change?
Tidied up the formatting of your post.
Now you can replace me with a robot.
Your resistance to learning curves explains the shallowness of your prognostications in the rest of your post.
[[This is a digital medium in the Digital Age and if it ain’t at your fingertips, you won’t grow the site by attracting a younger demographic.]]
Nonsense- the reason Fr has as many as they do is because the articles and excerpts are quick, easy to read- and perfect for a rushed society that wants news fast, breaking, and simple to access multiple stories quickly- Yes even young people- There are plenty of ‘flashy’ ‘coll looking’ crappy websites around- the reasons that many don’t have larger followings is because they do not offer what this site offers- many folks in this thread have repeatedly tried to tell you this- but you want change and that is that apparently- Many younger folks have signed up to this site over the years- many others simply lurk and for good reason- because it’s a fantastic site to get news and get it quick clean and functional-
I belong to several news sites- but none of them are nearly as good as this site- they are slow- they have far far fewer articles, and certainly lag when it comes to breaking news- some not posting for hours- This site has reams of major breaking news updating nearly by the second- as well as tons of general interest stories which one is able to very quickly read the title and excerpt and decide if they wish to read further or not-