[BiglyCommentary]

So would you expect it to be in the Apple and Google app stores? Remember what happened to the Parlor app? BANNED.

You can directly download a nonstore app and install it on either an Android or iPhone but that requires a setting change.

[Steve Van Doorn]

NEVER WILL! thank goodness

[Veggie Todd]

An app? LOL. Shirley, you jest.

[A strike]

Might want to think hard about that.

[Bullish]

NO, unless you’re logged in.

Are you logged in?

[BiglyCommentary]

Plus what would happen when your dog or cat walks on your phone when the app is open and clicks post? Remember - FR doesn’t do post deletes...

“Ignore. My dog made that post.” lol

[Delta 21]

Every web browser works fine for me. Desktop internet access is not going away, regardless of how much mobile access is wanted/needed.

[Library Lady]

I have DuckDuckGo on my phone and saved FreeRepublic as a bookmark. That works for me.

[Wilderness Conservative]

Youll find it in the gift shop next to the American flag nipple rings and Patriot face diapers.

[BozoTexino]

I’d settle for a ‘like’ button.

[paltz]

Best to stay as is. It’ll give the big tech d-bags too much of an excuse to eventually kick FR off their platforms.

[deport]

Why don’t you send a private mail to Mr. Robinson and ask
him about the chances, problems, etc of getting one?

[USS Alaska]

I can get one for you, and $52,000,000 from a Nigerian Prince, but first you need to send me $16,267.43 to cover expenses.

Just send me your bank info and password {use the private reply} and within several weeks I will have you contacted by the Prince with instructions on the delivery of the money.

If you give half of the 52 Million to jimbo, he will create your very own app.

This is not a joke, I am series. Honest.

[Ciaphas Cain]

Don't need an app, I just start typing "free" in the address bar and the browser automatically fills in the FR URL.

It does the same for me at work. One of these days IT is going to find that someone keeps visiting this Free Republic site and investigate. I imagine one of two things will happen: FR gets blacklisted and put on the list of sites we can't access, or I get fired. Maybe both. But it will be worth it :-P

[Sirius Lee]

It's totally free. Just click here to download.

https://freerepublic.com

[Pollard]

Have you seen this website?

The design hasn't changed in decades. It actually wouldn't be all that hard to at least make it responsive, that is, fit all devices and be readable with nothing flowing off the screen and without the text shrinking so much it's unreadable. Most websites are like that now so an app or mobile version isn't really needed, especially on a site that's mostly text like FR is. Text pages are very lightweight. FR is good down to an ipad 768x1024px screen. I guess some people manage to use FR with a phone by pinching, zooming in and probably turning the phone sideways or swiping around a lot.

RWD -- Responsive Web Design would make FR very usable on any device. I know the div is already used. A div is a wrapper around some content. Goes something like this.

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Desktop version

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Header up top

Sidebar 1 | main content | sidebar two

Footer at bottom

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Mobile version

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Header up top

main content
Sidebar 1
Sidebar 2

Footer

Header shrinks or converts to mobile menu with hamburger icon(3 lines). Main content shrinks in width. Both sidebars get stacked under the main content with footer below that. On some sites. the footer may have 4 blocks side by side and on mobile, those will also get stacked instead. All could be done using a css framework like Bootstrap, Foundation, Simple CSS etc. I'm not saying it would be quick and easy, FR uses html tables which are not responsive as cells in a table can't simply rearrange and stack. Everything would have to be contained in a div. All the underlying Perl code would have to be gone through and have classes added to components. Those classes would have to be named to work with the css framework being used. Every single thing needs to be in a div, even if it's just a single line of text like the title at the top of each sidebar block. They also get nested to group things. Sidebar title + sidebar content each in their own div and both go in a sidebar block div etc.

I don't know why FR hasn't been brought into the 21st century yet. Maybe they figure it keeps the young-uns out. Patriots.win which used to be a reddit sub is pretty much the younger version of FR. Pro Trump, conservative, anti-commie, pro constitution etc. That's conservatism for you. Everyone in their own little squares arguing about the little differences on our side as the Left takes over by not being fractured.

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

If we could only access FR through an app, I wouldn’t be able to read it. I refuse to add an app to my phone and have shut down all I can that came on it. What are those “free” apps doing with your data?

[Bloodandgravy]

[Mr. Jeeves]

The primary purpose of an app is to give veto power over your content to Apple and Google in return for minimal readability improvements on hand-held devices - which can be equally well accomplished by good web design.

[TomGuy]

GOOGLE lists many ways to turn webpages into apps:

Search: make webpage into app