Posted on 01/29/2008 12:00:01 PM PST by conservativesister
Downloaded updates in my computer and restarted this morning, now on FR, I only get titles, there's nothing to read about the topic until I click & open it up.
HELP, what happened!
For what it is worth, I myself think the Free Republic interface is brilliant. I have seen a great number of other websites, and I find this by far to be the easiest to quickly read.
In my opinion, many other forum websites use a tremendous amount of bandwidth in doing highly repetitive graphics in the form of "avatars", which I find tedious and wasteful of bandwidth.
Also I find that many others use a overly-delineated format where you end up with lots of boxed-in items that are hard to quickly parse (particularly those websites which use layouts where the vertical lines do not all meet.) Or they use colors that not only do not help the visual presentation but I find much too tiring to look at for any lengthy period.
Many others are not friendly to big fonts, which I find more restful on the eyes than the tiny fonts which those other websites seem solely designed to deliver.
Check out this post! LOL!
I really hate it when he does that. He's so promiscuous. (Sigh...) Damn Argyles anyway.
Forgive me for jumping to conclusions, but having been online for about 30 years [which sounds like it's longer than you've been alive] and which is before the "internet (not the "web"- there's a difference) was made public, having connected to and operated more "BBS" software than you even know exists [or existed], operating a webhosting/webserver company and handling server administration, script installation and maintenance, and writing HTML with a text editor (along with CGI/PHP/Perl), I'm rather sure that you are using M$ Internet Explorer, M$ Outlook (or worse, Outlook Express), M$ Windoze and use or have used AOHell, or similar, as your ISP. All of which are indications of lack of knowledge, understanding and sanity.
The software running FR and the interface on it is about the best and fastest and most usable of any "Forum" software around. The reason there are no fancy graphics is because they take up bandwidth, with no redeeming features to balance that. There is a white background with black text for posts or articles because psychologically, that is what most every human has looked at and read from since their birth- for eons. It is the most natural to the eyes. Simple text is, in general, the easiest and fastest to encode/add to/read from large databases and send to your browser. [You did know that this forum operates on huge databases, didn't you? Do you even know the difference between a relational database and a flat file?]
Every year we get semi-literate N00bs like yourself who think they know everything about the internet, servers, and software because they have some dialup or faster connection to the internet and their computer came with M$ krapTM and they know of no other. It's the Endless September syndrome all over again.
Once you've run a few servers, learned a few programming languages, and just generally matured in your knowledge and mental age, then come back and rant and rave about how bad this software is. Almost everyone who is at all knowledgable will totally disregard you as the stunted troll, but at least you'll have more experience to back up your opinion then.
Oh, yeah, and about "opinions". Every a$$h0le has one. Doesn't mean it's any less stinky than any other.
Just a word, not necessarily to the wise.
#8^D
ROFLMAO - that is some beautiful writing, right there! :-)
I’ve got all your experience folded up in my back pocket and more. I’ve forgotten more than you’ll ever know son!
Your mother warned you, but did you listen? No!
Now that you mention it, that happened to me, too.
Did that yellow bar that turned green go away on yours too?
Just happened to me again. I re-logged it at work....I come home....I’m logged out again.
I NEVER log out.
LOL—post of the week! Literally laughed out loud. Encore!
Hey, this is series. In fact, it could be HUGH!!!
When in doubt . . .
—take the cheese out of the moose’s mouth.
—get his hoof off your sister’s rear
—get your sister out of the shower.
—then reboot.
You know...if you don’t like it, nobody’s making you stay.
Ditto - please JimRob and John don’t do anything to slow down or make FR more complicated.
You have AIDS. Sorry.
Yes, they certainly are.
I am glad that Free Republic's very clean format works so well with arbitrary font sizes.
I know I could simply change preferences to a larger font, but that often messes up the format on other sites.
I’m with you.
I like FR just the way it is.
I like it just the way it is; clean, simple, easy to read, and fast. FR is about ideas, opinions, and activism, not fancy presentations. But, that's just my opinion.
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