OK FREEPERS! 7 Days ago FRee Republic had a make over, how do you like it so far?

4/6/2002 | TLBSHOW

[TLBSHOW]

7 Days ago FRee Republic had a make over, how do you like it so far?

Last Saturday free republic changed to beta format for it's web site design and the crowd went mad. Many loved the new site design and others hated the new site design.

Now that the dust has settled and a week has passed. How do you like it now?

This is a question and opinion thread. Thanks!

[sweetliberty]

I had to use a different computer this past week one evening and had to login and had no trouble at all. I do not login from the home page though. I have the pager bookmarked in my yahoo bookmarks and I can access them from anywhere. When I use it from a different computer it brings up a login screen. Seemed to be working just fine. Here's a link to the pager if you don't already have it:

Free Republic Pager

[LocDoc]

I have to eat crow. EAGLES UP!

[johnny7]

It's fine now. When I saw the first version I freaked.

Job well done.

[sweetliberty]

"don't like the fact that it shows pics on "New Posts To You"

You can change that. All you have to do is go to the "My Comments" page and at the top click where it says, "show brief." I had the same problem. I'm not sure how my settings went to the full format, but the brief is definitely better. The other way was a painfully long page load.

[martin_fierro]

7 Days ago FRee Republic had a make over, how do you like it so far?

I like it fine, except it looks too much like Greta Van Susteren.

<|:)~

[oldfart]

At first I hated it. Now I just don't like it much. But since it's what we have - I guess I'll either get used to it or.... or I won't.

I use a webtv with a big screen on the other side of the room, so I don't have any trouble reading the text, But the new format takes FOREVER to load! I realize that part of that is caused by the webtv, but it's a new problem, one that started with the new format.

[sweetliberty]

"a link back to the forum be placed on my email pages."

Yes, I always thought that would be a good idea too.

[oldvike]

Thanks for the help!!

[Jakarta ex-pat]

For me, the 'format' is irrelevant.

Do we still have FreeRepublic.com?

Damn Right.

Long live the Best Website anyone has ever created.

Thanks Jim!

[palo verde]

I love it
both thumbs up
I find it fun, interesting, attractive, and full of goodies
both thumbs up
flowers for johnrob
Love, Palo

[bert]

You have to know that some of us curmuggenedly conservatives don't really cotten to change.

I will live with it, especially the part about the your posts/replies.

[Fred Mertz]

Brown-noser;^)

I'm comfortable with the new format.

[runningbear]

I'll second your comments too!... :o)

[SuperLuminal]

A prime example of the old saying: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

We've gone from 'full-flavored" to "sterile".

[palo verde]

rofl rofl
you are so funny
I am happy to c u
new format is fun tho
I'm gettin' a kick out of it
lol I'll give u flowers too
Love, Palo

flowers for fred

[palo verde]

hi sweetliberty
thanks for tip
I just changed ''my comments'' to brief
now it loads up right away
Love, Palo

[sneakypete]

I hate it.

[Fred Mertz]

Hey, you just got this thread moved to the "chat" forum!

That's a kewl feature.

[fightu4it]

I didn't see anything wrong with the previous version.

I don't see any radical new improvment in this version.

[M.K. Borders]

Shure it took some getting used to. Most of my problems happened because I was going to the pre-released "beta" version just to get used to the change before it happened. When the new version hit though, it really did'nt look like what I had been playing with.
However, the version we now have turns out to be much simplier than the beta, and has features that inprove over the old version.

In all, I like what has been done. I really like the feature that notifies me when I have a reply to a post.

I some what miss the local page and it's posts, simply because posting to that page was faster, easier than doing a full blown post. That seems to be a minor point though.

My only suggestion to JimRob (and I have seen it made by others), is for there to be a "spell-check" feature. That would really clean up my act!