From a post in the forum asking why it was hard to view FR earlier today:
"Fr was actually up, but all the resources were being hogged so it was extremely slow and timing out for most of us. Some posts got through.
I checked websitedown.info and it said it was down. Guess that is what it says when things are running slow and timing out.
When the FR site isn’t accessible, I go to Free Republic on Facebook to check the status.
Being bogged down by what or whom? Was there a national crisis that would make every FReeper on the planet try to log on at the same time?
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