Flush your computer’s DNS cache - and if you’re behind a firewall/router that has a DNS cache, flush that too.
“Flush your computer’s DNS cache -”
How do you do that?
That isn’t the issue, my testing says it is the server not serving up the pages.
It helped reducing the number of threads returned.
Some kind of performance issue on the server.
Freerepublic could be rewritten to serve pages quicker with less bandwidth. The design is quite outdated now.